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Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old boy runs wildly into his local police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods. The next morning the local bank is robbed at gunpoint. Making his escape the robber takes a hostage and flees and, once again, a suspect takes to the woods. As the felon's plans begin to fall apart he is,...
2) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xvi, 164 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars were following him, or that strangers wanted to harm him. Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 203 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling as a pediatrician, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough. Here is Mark’s childhood spent as the son of a struggling writer in a house that eventually held seven children after his aunt and uncle died and left...
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Western, a doctoral candidate and paranoid schizophrenic, admits herself to the hospital. There, she refuses to talk about her brother. Instead, she contemplates madness and perceived experience.
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