Aviv, Rachel

Summary: In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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Penney, Darby.

Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009

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Cline, Sally.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2003

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Vincent, Norah.

Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at time very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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Winchester, Simon.

Summary: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 423 WIN

Summary: Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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