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Carrière, Alice Daniels, Natalie Friesen, Jonathan. Hall, Steven. McLaughlin, Kate Oliver, LaurenOliver, Lauren
Summary: "Two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident, a missing nine-year-old girl, and the shocking connection between them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLISummary: Secluded in upstate New York, a facility known as Camp Tic-a-Palooza welcomes young people with Tourette Syndrome. This ABC News program profiles several camp attendees, focusing on the challenges, triumphs, and emotional impact of living with TS. Ten-year-old Sid's symptoms include frequently sticking out his middle finger. Amanda displays a menagerie of vocal tics, often hissing, barking, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program, filmed in the U.K., discusses the following disorders and their differential diagnoses: phobic anxiety; anxiety; obsessive-compulsive disorder, from minor to acute; stress reactions and adjustment; and dissociative disorders. Sub-disorders discussed include Korsakov's syndrome; agoraphobia and social phobia; generalized anxiety and mixed-anxiety-and-depressive disorder; panic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: BDD, as it is called, afflicts people by causing them to become obsessed with the idea that they must drastically and constantly alter their appearance. Two apparently normal, attractive women discuss their experiences with BDD. An expert attempts to unravel the mysteries behind this unusual condition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Alicia, a 16-year-old, has battled anorexia since she was nine. Due to body dysmorphic disorder, Tim believes that his flat stomach is huge. A high school swimmer, Haley initially wanted breast augmentation to correct a size imbalance but then opted for enlargement. This program follows several case studies in order to highlight what can happen when the quest for physical perfection goes too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a completely preventable medical condition. Studies show that the average MPD patient spends seven years and receives three incorrect diagnoses before receiving an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. It is now recognized that MPD is the result of severe childhood trauma, usually sexual and physical abuse-and it develops as a coping mechanism in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Each year nearly two million people injure their own bodies using knives, scissors, glass, cigarettes, candles, razors-in fact, practically any destructive item they can find. Through interviews with patients and mental health professionals and footage of actual therapy sessions, this compelling program seeks to understand a deeply disturbing and often secretive mental disorder that affects as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Daniels, Natalie
Summary: "Working as a dedicated forensic psychiatrist for many years, Emma is not shocked so easily. Then she is assigned to work with Connie, a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Connie is suffering from dissociative amnesia--or at least seems to be. Now it is up to Emma to decide whether Connie can stand trial for her sins. But there is something about Connie that inexorably pulls Emma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANMcLaughlin, Kate
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Dylan wakes up in an apartment she does not recognize; the other people there seem to know her, but she does not know them. She borrows a phone to call home and realizes she has been missing for three days. Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dylan must grapple not only with the many people currently crammed inside her head, but that a secret from her past so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCLFriesen, Jonathan.
Summary: "When her carry-on bag is accidentally switched with Elias's identical pack, Clara uses the luggage tag to track down her things. At that address she discovers there is not one Elias Phinn, but two"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blink 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION FRISummary: Every time Laura gets swollen glands, she spends hours on the Internet researching terminal cancer. Kevin lives in fear of contracting HIV-a drop of blood can send him into a state of panic. And the smallest ache convinces Sarah that she could die at any moment. Studies suggest that as many as one in four general-practitioner consultations are for hypochondriacs-or those who suffer from what is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Hall, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, ABC News anchors Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson study the causes and key signs of dissociative identity disorder and the fragmented lives of two people dealing with its effects. "It isn't role playing and it is not mood swings. They are totally separate entities," says Chris Sizemore, the inspiration for the 1957 film The Three Faces of Eve. For 44 years, 22 personalities of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Carrière, Alice
Summary: Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2023