Books Featuring Mental Health
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snowynightGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Summary: "In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary."
Comment: A frank and unflinching memoir about herself, her fellow patients and the keepers. Susanna Kaysen provides an often overlooked perspective of someone diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, questioning the definition of
I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador and Anna-Lisa Johanson
Summary: I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! is not just a reference for mental health practitioners or law enforcement professionals. It is a must-read guide for family members whose loved ones are battling mental illness. Read and learn as have hundreds of thousands of others...to LEAP-Listen, Empathize, Agree, and Partner-and help your patients and loved ones accept the treatment they need."
Comment: It can be frustrating when your family members/friends have mental disease yet they seem to reject help available. This book provides both information and compassion to people whose are facing the struggle to understand and care for their loved one.
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love by Doreen Orion
Summary: Locked in a ward of an Arizona psychiatric hospital, the patient called Fran looked harmless, even ordinary. Meeting her, psychiatrist Doreen Orion had no warning that Fran suffered from erotomania, the bizarre mental disorder that causes stalkers to believe their victims are in love with them--and no inkling that she would be the next target of Fran's twisted, dangerous mind.
Now Dr. Orion reveals how she has been spied upon, accosted, and hunted for eight years, living in fear of her life and the lives of those closest to her. Changing her address and job, getting restraining orders and having Fran arrested, have all failed to end Fran's obsessive behavior, which continues to this day.
Recounting the ordeals of Madonna, David Letterman, and scores of others who have been terrorized by stalkers, Dr. Orion alerts potential victims to this increasingly deadly disorder--and tells what society must do to protect us all from those who would kill for love.
Comment: Both a victim and a professional, Dr. Orion details how emotionally draining and frightening being stalked even by someone who is unlikely to hurt the victim physically, how easy it was for even the law enforcement officers to dismiss the victim's concern. She also shares information about the disorder and how to protect yourself.
Summary: "In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary."
Comment: A frank and unflinching memoir about herself, her fellow patients and the keepers. Susanna Kaysen provides an often overlooked perspective of someone diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, questioning the definition of
I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador and Anna-Lisa Johanson
Summary: I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! is not just a reference for mental health practitioners or law enforcement professionals. It is a must-read guide for family members whose loved ones are battling mental illness. Read and learn as have hundreds of thousands of others...to LEAP-Listen, Empathize, Agree, and Partner-and help your patients and loved ones accept the treatment they need."
Comment: It can be frustrating when your family members/friends have mental disease yet they seem to reject help available. This book provides both information and compassion to people whose are facing the struggle to understand and care for their loved one.
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love by Doreen Orion
Summary: Locked in a ward of an Arizona psychiatric hospital, the patient called Fran looked harmless, even ordinary. Meeting her, psychiatrist Doreen Orion had no warning that Fran suffered from erotomania, the bizarre mental disorder that causes stalkers to believe their victims are in love with them--and no inkling that she would be the next target of Fran's twisted, dangerous mind.
Now Dr. Orion reveals how she has been spied upon, accosted, and hunted for eight years, living in fear of her life and the lives of those closest to her. Changing her address and job, getting restraining orders and having Fran arrested, have all failed to end Fran's obsessive behavior, which continues to this day.
Recounting the ordeals of Madonna, David Letterman, and scores of others who have been terrorized by stalkers, Dr. Orion alerts potential victims to this increasingly deadly disorder--and tells what society must do to protect us all from those who would kill for love.
Comment: Both a victim and a professional, Dr. Orion details how emotionally draining and frightening being stalked even by someone who is unlikely to hurt the victim physically, how easy it was for even the law enforcement officers to dismiss the victim's concern. She also shares information about the disorder and how to protect yourself.
