Psychology 209: Abnormal Psychology

Books on Mental Illness: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Case Studies and Fiction. Prepared for PSYC 209 - Abnormal Psychology.

Books in the TC3 Library on Mental Illness
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Books in the TC3 Library on Mental Illness

Behrman, Andy. Electroboy: a memoir of mania [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .B395 2002]
Berger, Diane. We heard the angels of madness: a family guide to coping with manic depression. [RC516 .B44 1992]
Buchman, Dana. A special education: one family’s journey through the maze of learning disabilities. [HQ759.913 .B82 2006]
Caramagno, Thomas C. The flight of the mind: Virginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness. [PR6045.O72 Z566 1992]
Casey, Joan Frances. The Flock. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 C35 1991]
Casey, Nell. Unholy ghost: writers on depression. [RC537 .U546 2001]
Chase, Truddi. When Rabbit howls. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 C48 1990]
Coleman, William L. A light in the shadows: emerging from the darkness of depression. [Religious aspects of depression] [BV4910.34 .C65 2000]
Crowley, Kathleen. The day room: a memoir of madness and mending. [Depression] [RB127 .C785 1995]
Duke, Patty. A brilliant madness: living with manic-depressive illness. [RC516 .D85 1993]
Endler, Norman S. Holiday of darkness: a psychologist's personal journey out of his depression. [RC516 .E53 1990]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The crack-up. [PS3511.I9 C7 1956]
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The yellow wallpaper. [Fiction] [PS1744.G57 Y45 1998]
Grandin, Temple. Emergence: labeled autistic. [RC553.A88 G73 1996]
Grandin, Temple. Thinking in pictures: and other reports from my life with autism. [RC553.A88 G74 1995]
Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden, a novel by Hannah Green. [Fiction] [PS3513.R7 .I5 1974]
Greenberg, Michael. Hurry down sunshine. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .G74 2008]
Greenfeld, Josh. A child called Noah. [Autism] [RJ496.B7 G72]
Greenfield, Josh. A place for Noah. [Autism] [RJ496.B7 G721]
Hine, Robert V. Broken glass: a family’s journey through mental illness [RC514 .H36 2006]
Holland, Gail Bernice. For Sasha, with love: an Alzheimer's crusade: the Anne Bashkiroff story. [RC523.B3 H65 1985]
Jamison, Kay R. An unquiet mind. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .J363 1995]
Karisik, Judy. The ride together: a brother and sister's memoir of autism in the family. [RJ506.A9 K37 2003]
Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, interrupted. [Psychiatric hospital] [RC464.K36 A3 1994]
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest: a novel. [Fiction] [PS3561.E67 O5]
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel. The outsider: a journey into my father's struggle with madness. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .L23 2000]
Leatham, Victoria. Bloodletting: a memoir of secrets, self-harm & survival. [Self-mutilation] [RC552.S4 L43 2006]
Lee, Judy. Save me!: A young woman's journey through schizophrenia to health. [Christian biography] [BR1725.L34 A35]
Maurice, Catherine. Let me hear your voice: a family's triumph over autism. [RJ506.A9 M39 1993]
Mays, John Bentley. In the jaws of the black dogs: a memoir of depression. [RC537 .M3923 1999]
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: a biography. [PS3537.E915 Z775 1991]
Miller, Rachel (ed). Diagnosis: Schizophrenia: a comprehensive resource for patients, families, and helping professionals. [RC514 .S583 2002]
Millett, Kate. The loony-bin trip. [Psychotherapy] [RC464.M53 A3 1990]
Moses, Ed. Nine sisters dancing: a novel. [Fiction, multiple personality] [PS3563.O88433 N56 1996]
Pankejeff, Sergius. The Wolf-Man. With The case of the Wolf-Man, by Sigmund Freud and a supplement by Ruth Mack Brunswick. [RC463 .W67]
Osborn, Claudia L. Over my head: a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out. [Brain damage] [RC387.5 .O83 1998]
Osborne, Terry. Sightlines: the view of a valley through the voice of depression. [RC537 .O79 2001]
Park, Clara Claiborne. The siege: the first eight years of an autistic child: with an epilogue, fifteen years later. [RJ506.A9 P3 1982]
Plath, Sylvia. Bell jar. [Fiction] [PS3566.L27 B3]
Porter, Roy. A social history of madness: the world through the eyes of the insane. [RC464.A1 P67 1988]
Reiland, Rachel. Get me out of here: my recovery from borderline personality disorder. [RC569.5.B67 R45 2004]
Resnick, Susan Kushner. Sleepless days: one woman's journey through postpartum depression. [RG852 .R475 2000]
Rife, Janet Miller. Injured mind, shattered dreams: Brian's journey from severe head injury to a new dream. [Brain damage] [RC387.5 .R54 1994]
Schiller, Lori. The quiet room: a journey out of the torment of madness. [Schizophrenia] [RC514.S332 A3 1996]
Schreiber, Flora Rheta. Sybil. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 S37]
Sheehan, Susan. Is there no place on earth for me? [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .S49 1982]
Siegel, Ronald K. Whispers: the voices of paranoia. [Paranoia] [RC520 .S54 1996]
Simon, Lizzie. Detour: my bipolar road trip in 4-D. [C516 .S56 2002]
Sizemore, Chris Costner. A mind of my own. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 S594 1989]
Solomon, Andrew. The noonday demon: an atlas of depression. [RC537 .S598 2001]
Steel, Danielle. His bright light: the story of Nick Traina. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .S78 1998]
Steele, Ken. The day the voices stopped: a memoir of madness and hope. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .S754 2001]
Styron, William. Darkness visible: a memoir of madness. [Depression] [RC537 .S88 1990]
Tammet, Daniel. Born on a blue day: inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant: a memoir. [Autism] [RC553.A88 T36 2007]
Taylor, Blake E.S. ADHD & me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table [RJ506.H9 T365 2007]
Thigpen, Corbett H. Three faces of Eve. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 T5 1957]
Walker, Anthony. Siren's Dance: my marriage to a borderline - a case study. [Borderline personality disorder] [RC569.5.B67 W35 2003]
Wilensky, Amy S. Passing for normal: a memoir of compulsion. [Tourette syndrome] [RC533.W54 A3 1999]
Williams, Donna. Autism and sensing: the unlost instinct. [RC553.A88 1998]
Williams, Donna. Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic. [RC553.A88 W55 1992]
Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac nation: young and depressed in America. [RC537.W87 1994]
Wyden. Peter. Conquering schizophrenia: a father, his son, and a medical breakthrough. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 W93 1998]

Subject Headings

To locate books on mental illness (biographies, personal narratives, case studies and fictional accounts) in the TC3 Library catalog, you can search for the following subject headings. Additional titles can obtained for you from other libraries via Interlibrary loan. To locate these titles use these subject headings in WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (Note: Do not include the hyphen or any other punctuation when performing these searches)

Alzheimer's disease — Biography
Alzheimer's Disease — personal narratives
Anorexia nervosa — Biography
Anorexia Nervosa — patients
Autism — Biography
Autism — Patients — Biography
Autistic children — Rehabilitation
Bipolar Disorder — personal narratives
Borderline personality disorder — Biography
Criminal psychology
Depressed persons — Case studies
Depressed persons — Biography
Depression, Mental — Case studies
Depression, Mental — Patients — Biography
Depressive Disorder — personal narratives
Manic-depressive illness
Manic-depressive persons — Biography
Manic-depressive psychoses — Popular works
Mental Disorders — personal narratives
Mental illness — Biography
Mental illness — Case studies
Mental illness — Patients — Biography
Mentally ill — Biography
Multiple personality — Fiction
Multiple personality — Patients — Biography
Neuroses — Case studies
Obsessive-compulsive disorder — Case studies
Obsessive-compulsive disorder — Patients — Biography
Panic disorders — Patients — Rehabilitation
Panic disorders — Popular works
Paranoia — Case studies
Personality disorders
Postpartum depression — Patients — Biography
Psychoanalysis — Case studies
Psychoanalysis — personal narratives
Psychotherapy patients — Biography
Psychotherapy — personal narratives
Psychotic Disorders — personal narratives
Schizophrenia — Patients — Biography
Schizophrenia — Personal Narratives
Schizophrenics — Biography
Tourette syndrome — Patients — Biography
Women — Psychology — Fiction

Other Catlogs

You can also use the subject headings listed above to search other library catlogs:

SUNY Catalog, a combined catalog of SUNY libraries with over 61 million unique items. For example, a search for Schizophrenics and Biography retrieves over 50 results.
WorldCat - Is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Web Sites

TC3 library maintains a page of links to high quality nursing web sites which includes a section on Nursing History. To access it:

Last update: Monday, February 23, 2009

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		Psychology 209: Abnormal Psychology Books on Mental Illness: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Case Studies and Fiction. Prepared for PSYC 209 - Abnormal Psychology. Books in the TC3 Library on Mental Illness Subject Headings Other Catalogs Web Sites with Searchable Databases Books in the TC3 Library on Mental Illness Behrman, Andy. Electroboy: a memoir of mania [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .B395 2002] Berger, Diane. We heard the angels of madness: a family guide to coping with manic depression. [RC516 .B44 1992] Buchman, Dana. A special education: one family’s journey through the maze of learning disabilities. [HQ759.913 .B82 2006] Caramagno, Thomas C. The flight of the mind: Virginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness. [PR6045.O72 Z566 1992] Casey, Joan Frances. The Flock. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 C35 1991] Casey, Nell. Unholy ghost: writers on depression. [RC537 .U546 2001] Chase, Truddi. When Rabbit howls. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 C48 1990] Coleman, William L. A light in the shadows: emerging from the darkness of depression. [Religious aspects of depression] [BV4910.34 .C65 2000] Crowley, Kathleen. The day room: a memoir of madness and mending. [Depression] [RB127 .C785 1995] Duke, Patty. A brilliant madness: living with manic-depressive illness. [RC516 .D85 1993] Endler, Norman S. Holiday of darkness: a psychologist's personal journey out of his depression. [RC516 .E53 1990] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The crack-up. [PS3511.I9 C7 1956] Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The yellow wallpaper. [Fiction] [PS1744.G57 Y45 1998] Grandin, Temple. Emergence: labeled autistic. [RC553.A88 G73 1996] Grandin, Temple. Thinking in pictures: and other reports from my life with autism. [RC553.A88 G74 1995] Greenberg, Joanne. I never promised you a rose garden, a novel by Hannah Green. [Fiction] [PS3513.R7 .I5 1974] Greenberg, Michael. Hurry down sunshine. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .G74 2008] Greenfeld, Josh. A child called Noah. [Autism] [RJ496.B7 G72] Greenfield, Josh. A place for Noah. [Autism] [RJ496.B7 G721] Hine, Robert V. Broken glass: a family’s journey through mental illness [RC514 .H36 2006] Holland, Gail Bernice. For Sasha, with love: an Alzheimer's crusade: the Anne Bashkiroff story. [RC523.B3 H65 1985] Jamison, Kay R. An unquiet mind. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .J363 1995] Karisik, Judy. The ride together: a brother and sister's memoir of autism in the family. [RJ506.A9 K37 2003] Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, interrupted. [Psychiatric hospital] [RC464.K36 A3 1994] Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest: a novel. [Fiction] [PS3561.E67 O5] Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel. The outsider: a journey into my father's struggle with madness. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .L23 2000] Leatham, Victoria. Bloodletting: a memoir of secrets, self-harm & survival. [Self-mutilation] [RC552.S4 L43 2006] Lee, Judy. Save me!: A young woman's journey through schizophrenia to health. [Christian biography] [BR1725.L34 A35] Maurice, Catherine. Let me hear your voice: a family's triumph over autism. [RJ506.A9 M39 1993] Mays, John Bentley. In the jaws of the black dogs: a memoir of depression. [RC537 .M3923 1999] Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: a biography. [PS3537.E915 Z775 1991] Miller, Rachel (ed). Diagnosis: Schizophrenia: a comprehensive resource for patients, families, and helping professionals. [RC514 .S583 2002] Millett, Kate. The loony-bin trip. [Psychotherapy] [RC464.M53 A3 1990] Moses, Ed. Nine sisters dancing: a novel. [Fiction, multiple personality] [PS3563.O88433 N56 1996] Pankejeff, Sergius. The Wolf-Man. With The case of the Wolf-Man, by Sigmund Freud and a supplement by Ruth Mack Brunswick. [RC463 .W67] Osborn, Claudia L. Over my head: a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out. [Brain damage] [RC387.5 .O83 1998] Osborne, Terry. Sightlines: the view of a valley through the voice of depression. [RC537 .O79 2001] Park, Clara Claiborne. The siege: the first eight years of an autistic child: with an epilogue, fifteen years later. [RJ506.A9 P3 1982] Plath, Sylvia. Bell jar. [Fiction] [PS3566.L27 B3] Porter, Roy. A social history of madness: the world through the eyes of the insane. [RC464.A1 P67 1988] Reiland, Rachel. Get me out of here: my recovery from borderline personality disorder. [RC569.5.B67 R45 2004] Resnick, Susan Kushner. Sleepless days: one woman's journey through postpartum depression. [RG852 .R475 2000] Rife, Janet Miller. Injured mind, shattered dreams: Brian's journey from severe head injury to a new dream. [Brain damage] [RC387.5 .R54 1994] Schiller, Lori. The quiet room: a journey out of the torment of madness. [Schizophrenia] [RC514.S332 A3 1996] Schreiber, Flora Rheta. Sybil. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 S37] Sheehan, Susan. Is there no place on earth for me? [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .S49 1982] Siegel, Ronald K. Whispers: the voices of paranoia. [Paranoia] [RC520 .S54 1996] Simon, Lizzie. Detour: my bipolar road trip in 4-D. [C516 .S56 2002] Sizemore, Chris Costner. A mind of my own. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 S594 1989] Solomon, Andrew. The noonday demon: an atlas of depression. [RC537 .S598 2001] Steel, Danielle. His bright light: the story of Nick Traina. [Manic-depressive illness] [RC516 .S78 1998] Steele, Ken. The day the voices stopped: a memoir of madness and hope. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 .S754 2001] Styron, William. Darkness visible: a memoir of madness. [Depression] [RC537 .S88 1990] Tammet, Daniel. Born on a blue day: inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant: a memoir. [Autism] [RC553.A88 T36 2007] Taylor, Blake E.S. ADHD & me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table [RJ506.H9 T365 2007] Thigpen, Corbett H. Three faces of Eve. [Multiple personality] [RC569.5.M8 T5 1957] Walker, Anthony. Siren's Dance: my marriage to a borderline - a case study. [Borderline personality disorder] [RC569.5.B67 W35 2003] Wilensky, Amy S. Passing for normal: a memoir of compulsion. [Tourette syndrome] [RC533.W54 A3 1999] Williams, Donna. Autism and sensing: the unlost instinct. [RC553.A88 1998] Williams, Donna. Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic. [RC553.A88 W55 1992] Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac nation: young and depressed in America. [RC537.W87 1994] Wyden. Peter. Conquering schizophrenia: a father, his son, and a medical breakthrough. [Schizophrenia] [RC514 W93 1998] Back to top Subject Headings To locate books on mental illness (biographies, personal narratives, case studies and fictional accounts) in the TC3 Library catalog, you can search for the following subject headings. Additional titles can obtained for you from other libraries via Interlibrary loan. To locate these titles use these subject headings in WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (Note: Do not include the hyphen or any other punctuation when performing these searches) Alzheimer's disease — Biography Alzheimer's Disease — personal narratives Anorexia nervosa — Biography Anorexia Nervosa — patients Autism — Biography Autism — Patients — Biography Autistic children — Rehabilitation Bipolar Disorder — personal narratives Borderline personality disorder — Biography Criminal psychology Depressed persons — Case studies Depressed persons — Biography Depression, Mental — Case studies Depression, Mental — Patients — Biography Depressive Disorder — personal narratives Manic-depressive illness Manic-depressive persons — Biography Manic-depressive psychoses — Popular works Mental Disorders — personal narratives Mental illness — Biography Mental illness — Case studies Mental illness — Patients — Biography Mentally ill — Biography Multiple personality — Fiction Multiple personality — Patients — Biography Neuroses — Case studies Obsessive-compulsive disorder — Case studies Obsessive-compulsive disorder — Patients — Biography Panic disorders — Patients — Rehabilitation Panic disorders — Popular works Paranoia — Case studies Personality disorders Postpartum depression — Patients — Biography Psychoanalysis — Case studies Psychoanalysis — personal narratives Psychotherapy patients — Biography Psychotherapy — personal narratives Psychotic Disorders — personal narratives Schizophrenia — Patients — Biography Schizophrenia — Personal Narratives Schizophrenics — Biography Tourette syndrome — Patients — Biography Women — Psychology — Fiction Back to top Other Catlogs You can also use the subject headings listed above to search other library catlogs: SUNY Catalog, a combined catalog of SUNY libraries with over 61 million unique items. For example, a search for Schizophrenics and Biography retrieves over 50 results. WorldCat - Is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Back to top Web Sites TC3 library maintains a page of links to high quality nursing web sites which includes a section on Nursing History. To access it: The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database Library of Congress Online Catalog Psychiatric Services Back to top Last update: Monday, February 23, 2009
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