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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, she knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she and her best friend, Ben Taylor, roamed as children, and where her life's course shifted irrevocably one night long ago. On her journey, Julianna meets Elijah Hunter, a shy teenaged African-American boy,...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he's in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. Martin never takes off his sunglasses. Never.
No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
Series
Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"--
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...
9) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
10) The dream team
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A wild and crazy comedy about four mental patients who get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game. Billy, a pathological liar with a violent streak, finds himself on the loose in New York City with his fellow group therapy patients: Henry, a neat freak; Jack, a former advertising executive who thinks he's Christ; and Albert, a near catatonic couch potato.
11) Halloween
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance). Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely, despite the fact that Michael seems docile and does not speak...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A top law school graduate struggling with suicidal thoughts and an eating disorder describes her reluctant participation in a therapeutic support group that taught her the meaning of human connection and intimacy.
Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements?...
13) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
16) Carefree
Series
Astaire and Rogers collection volume Vol. 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
She's afraid of marriage--can he help? With the forever magic of Irving Berlin's romantic Change Partners, the dance craze of The Yam and more, the answer is delightfully Yes!
17) Don Juan Demarco
Language
English
Formats
Description
Romantic comedy about an aging psychiatrist and his patient, a young man who claims to be the legendary lover Don Juan.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
19) Shrink
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Henry Carter is L.A.'s top celebrity psychiatrist with an A-list clientele, including a famous actress, an insecure young writer, an obsessive-compulsive super-agent. Henry is not in a good place, however. Disillusioned with both his career and personal life, Henry's only hope of salvation could come from his first pro bono case, a troubled teenager from a neighborhood far from the Hollywood Hills. Considering his present state of mind, Henry may...
Series
Studio classic volume 23
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This is a fact-based story about a young Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve's husband, confused by his wife's aberrant behavior when assuming her two "other selves," seeks out help from a psychiatrist. Carefully probing Eve's subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, though each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existence, none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her...
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