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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
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Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A group of outcasts with questionable states of mental health--including Stan, who was partially eaten by cannibals, and Greta, who may be a mass-murdering arsonist--are sought by a psychotherapist to uncover internal and external monsters.
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When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
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When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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276 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her...
11) Side effects
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
12) Another woman
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English
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When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she begins writing a book in her rented studio which neighbors a psychotherapist's office. The conversations that she overhears compell her to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.
13) Shock corridor
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Criterion collection volume 19
Publisher
Criterion Collection
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English
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A journalist fakes mental illness to get himself committed to a mental hospital for a story. Soon, he starts to lose his mind.
16) The dream team
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English
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Four mental patients get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game. Billy, a pathological liar with a violent streak, finds himself on the loose in New York City with his fellow group therapy patients: Henry, a neat freak; Jack, a former advertising executive who thinks he's Christ; and Albert, a near catatonic couch potato.
17) I'm not crazy: the true story of Frances Deitrick's flight from a psychiatric snake pit to freedom
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New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
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295 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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233 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images"--Dust jacket flap.
20) Halloween
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Thirty-fifth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The film that ushered in the modern age of horror. Jamie Lee Curtis in her debut role plays a babysitter who must protect herself from the deadly Michael Myers. Myers is a mental institution escapee who killed his sister on Halloween fifteen years earlier.
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