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| TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| 50 Signs of Mental Illness | James Whitney Hicks |
| 72 Hour Hold | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| A Guard Within | Sarah Ferguson |
| A Black Woman's Journey With Depression - Willow Weep for Me | Meri Nana-Ama Danquah |
| Adult Bipolar Disorders | Mitzi Walsh |
| Advancing Mental Health | National Depressive & Manic Depressive Ass. |
| American Psychiatric Glossary | American Psychiatric Press |
| An Unquiet Mind | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| Barefoot | Lizann Bassham |
| Being Mentally Ill | Ronald Arjune |
| Brilliant Madness | Patty Duke |
| Call Me Anna | |
| Candy for the Soul | Danielle Steele |
| Canvas | |
| Causes, Course, & Prognosis | |
| Crazy | Pete Early |
| Crazy in America | Mary Beth Pfieffer |
| Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crises and Opportunity for the Justice System | Risdon Slate |
| Detour | Lizzie Simon |
| Down Came the Rain | Brooke Shields |
| Families in Pain | Phyllis Vine |
| Helpful Family Roles & Skills | |
| Helping Someone With Mental Illness | Rosalyn Carter |
| Hidden Victims | Julie Tallard Johnson MSW, ACSW |
| How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children | Gerald Newmark Ph.d |
| Hurry Down Sunshine | Michael Greenberg |
| I Am Not Sick I Do Not Need Help | Xavier Amador |
| I Know This Much is True | Wally Lamb |
| If Your Adolescent has Schizophrenia | Raquel E. Gur |
| I'm Right Your Wrong, Now What? | Xavier Amador |
| Insights and Psychosis | Xavier Amador & Anthony David |
| It Sucked and Then I Cried | Heather B. Armstrong |
| Lives at Risk | Hilary Ryglewicz & Bert Pepper |
| The Normal One - Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling | Jeane Safer Phd. |
| Madness in the Streets | Rael Jean Isaac & Virginia C. Armat |
| Me, Myself, and Them | Kurt Snyder |
| Mental Illness Stigma - Don't Call Me Nuts, Coping w/ Stigma of Mental Illness | Patrick W. Corrigan |
| Mental Illness and Your Town | Larry Hayes |
| Mind Gone Awry | Donald Kern |
| My Lobotomy | Charles Fleming |
| My Mom is BiPolar | Angela C. Grett |
| Voluntary Madness My Year Lost & Found in the Looney Bin |
Nora Vincent |
| Nowhere to Go | E. Fuller Torrey M.D. |
| Out of the Darkened Room | William R. Beardslee M.D. |
| Out of Darkness - Journey to Hope | Bruce Van Dusen |
| Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting | National Institute of Health |
| Psychiatric Drugs | Stuart C. Yudofsky M.D. |
| Psychosocial Rehabilitation | |
| Recovered Not Cured | Richard McLean |
| Reflections From a Different Journey | Stanley D. Klein |
| Saving Your Life - One Day at a Time | Connie Mabry |
| Schizophrenia a Brain Disease | |
| Schizophrenia and the Need - Fear Dilemma | Donald L. Durnham |
| Shock the Healing Power of ECT | Kitty Dukakis |
| Side by Side | Brian Wetzel |
| Skinny Miss S Was Very Depressed | Stacey Lane |
| Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue | |
| The Soloist | Steve Lopez |
| Software for the Soul | Soul Software |
| Special Needs Trust 5th edition | |
| Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of my Families Schizophrenia | Patrick Tracey |
| Stop Obsessing | Edna B. Foa Ph.d |
| Straight Talk About Psychiatric Medication for Kids | Timothy E. Wilens M.D. |
| Strength for His People | Pastor Steve Waterhouse Th. M |
| Stroke of Insight | Jill Bolte Tayler Ph.d |
| Surviving Manic Depression | E. Fuller Torrey M.D. |
| Surviving Schizophrenia 5th Edition | E. Fuller Torrey M.D. |
| The Bipolar Advantage | Tom Wootton |
| The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing | Judith L. Rapoport M.D. |
| The Center Cannot Hold | Elyn R. Saks |
| The Day The Voices Stopped | Ken Steele & Claire Berman |
| The Family Face of Schizophrenia | Patricia Backlar |
| The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness | Bodie Morey |
| The Insanity Offence: How America's Failure to Treat the Mentally Ill Endangers its Citizens | |
| The Quiet Room | Lori Shiller & Amanda Bennett |
| The Road Less Traveled | M. Scott Peck M.D |
| The Schizophrenia Yours and Mine | Carl C. Pfieffer Ph.D M.D. |
| The Soloist | Steve Lopez |
| The Soloist | Steve Lopez |
| The Uniquiet Mind | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| The Voices of Robby Wilde | Elizabeth Kytle |
| Treatment for Bipolar Disorder | |
| Understanding Bipolar Disorder | |
| Voluntary Madness: The Year I Lost and Found in the Looney Bin | Norah Vincent |
| Welcome To My Country | Lauren Slater |
| When Someone You Love has Mental Illness | Rebecca Woolis |
| Why Does Everything Have to be Perfect | Lynn Shackman M.D. & Shelagh Ryan Masline |
| Wishful Drinking | Carrie Fisher |
| You Will Dream New Dreams | Stanley D. Klein |
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