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Author
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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
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
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...
5) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Charlie. People think he's crazy. But he's not. People think he's stupid. But he's not. People think he's innocent-- He's the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinéad and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not till he's worked out where the beginning is. Because is the beginning long ago when Sinéad first spoke up for him after Charlie got in trouble at school for the millionth...
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.
10) Strange bodies
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North"--
Series
Studio classic volume 23
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A fact-based story about a Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve's husband, confused by his wife's behavior seeks help from a psychiatrist. The doctor finds that each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existence but none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is cured
12) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly begining to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff...
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Former prosecutor-turned-therapist Hailey Dean is a powerhouse, Mensa bright, and acutely observant. During a tragic week, one of her patients loses her parents to separate fatal accidents along with millions of dollars that has seemingly vanished. When the police begin to question Hailey's patient, she knows she is innocent. But who is the culprit?
14) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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.
16) Backtrack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
17) Shrink
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
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 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...
18) The grudge 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Kayako and Toshio's curse continues to haunt survivor, Jake. He is now confined to a psychiatric hospital after his family's alleged suicide. When the curse of the Grudge finally kills him too, news reaches a mysterious young woman in Japan. Dr. Sullivan who was Jake's case worker, goes to investigate his Chicago home. In the meantime, the curse continues to claim more victims. As the rage spreads, it becomes clear that Jake's horrifying stories are...
Publisher
New World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hellraiser: "When Kirsty Cotton's (Ashley Laurence) family moves into their ancestral home, they are terrorized by the resurrected corpse of her uncle (Sean Chapman), who requires the flesh of murdered innocent victims to oder to become whole and alive again."--Container.
Hellbound: "Picking up a mere two hours after Hellraiser left off, the sequel finds young Kirsty (Laurence) in a mental hospital in the aftermath of the horrific events she witnessed...
20) Equus
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.
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