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Dangerously mentally ill Fiction Dangerously mentally ill United States Biography Detectives Fiction FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural Mentally ill offenders United States Biography Murder Investigation Fiction Psychiatric hospitals France Fiction Pyrenees Fiction Stewart, Rollen Violent offenders United States BiographySummary: The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerated into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAMTorrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)
Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TORKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: A madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater when he claims he's the real Marty Stillwater.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOSummary: Presents the story of Rollen Stewart, also known as the Rainbow Man, who achieved notoriety in the late 1970s by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing a rainbow-colored afro wig and carrying signs encouraging the audience to be saved by Jesus Christ. Follows his obsession with attracting attention from the media, and his descent into violent behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Cinema DVD 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAIHayder, Mo.
Summary: When a dangerous mental patient named Isaac, who is linked to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, is released in error, Detective Jack Caffery must track him down before he kills again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2013
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Summary: "In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takesplace, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014