ARHS Recommended Reading Lists: Mental Illness

The author describes her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele and for its progressive methods of treatment.

Chronicles the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., and discusses his contributions to the study of economics, his illegitimate child, his bouts with schizophrenia, and his Nobel Prize-winning theories.

Robert Oxnam recounts his battle with multiple personality disorder, describing his eleven different personalities and his struggles to merge them into one personality in order to reclaim his life.

Presents the clinical observations of the authors about their patient, Eve, a women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder who appeared to them, her husband, hospital workers, and others in the three distinct guises of Eve Black, Eve White, and Jane.

An account of the life of Truddi Chase, a woman who developed multiple personalities as a result of childhood abuse and incest.

A guide to understanding schizophrenia.

"Traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World War II--as a science-driven profession that saves lives"--Provided by publisher.

A guide to understanding bipolar disorder.

Michael Schofield describes his fight to save his daughter, January, from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.