Making It Crazy by Sue Estroff. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1985.
Surviving Mental Illness: Stress, Coping, and Adaptation by A.B. Hatfield and H.P Lefley. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.
The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry by N. C. Andreasen. New York: Harper & Row, 1984
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook for Family, Friends, and Caregivers by Rebecca Woolis. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison. Knopf, 1999.
About Schizophrenia
Breakthroughs in Antipsychotic Medications: A Guide for Consumers, Families, and Clinicians by Peter J. Weiden, Editor. WW Norton & Co., 1999.
Conquering Schizophrenia: A Father, His Son and a Medical Breakthrough by Peter Wyden, Knopf, 1998.
Coping With Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families by K.T. Mueser and Susan Gingerich. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1994.
Coping with Schizophrenia: A Survival Manual for Parents, Relatives, and Friends by M. Wasow. Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, 1982.
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1982.
Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy (Second Edition) by Richard Warner, New York: Routledge, 1994.
Schizophrenia & Manic Depressive Disorder by E. F. Torrey, A. E. Bowler, E.H. Taylor and I.I. Gottesman. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Schizophrenia as a Human Process by Harry Stack Sullivan. New York: WW Norton & Co., 1994.
Surviving Schizophrenia: For Families, Consumers and Providers (3rd Edition) by E. Fuller Torrey, MD. Harper Perennial Library, 1995.
Schizophrenia Treatment
Working with Serious Mental Illness: Manual for Clinical Practice edited by Catherine Gamble and Geoff Brennan. New York: Bailliere Tindall, 2000.
Personal Therapy for Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: A Guide to Individualized Treatment by Gerard Hogarty. Guilford Press, 2002.
Psychological Management of Schizophrenia edited by Max Birchwood and Nicholas Tarrier. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994.
Schizophrenia by Max Birchwood and Chris Jackson. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, Inc., 2001.
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis edited by Anthony P. Morrison. New York: Taylor and Francis, Inc. 2003.
Early Intervention in Psychosis: A Guide to Concepts, Evidence and Interventions edited by Max Birchwood, David Fowler and Chris Jackson. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
About Mood Disorders
Overcoming Depression (Third Edition) by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos. New York, Harper Perennial, 1997.
We Heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression by Diane and Lisa Berger. New York: Quill, William Morrow. 1992.
Personal Experiences with Mood Disorders
A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness by Patty Duke and Gloria Hochman. Bantam Books, 1993. [back to top]
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. New York: Random House, 1997.
Darkness Visible by William Styron. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meaning of Illness by David Allen Karp. Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression by Tracy Thompson. Plume, 1996.
Personal Experiences with Mood Disorders
The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut. New York: Praeger, 1975.
The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett. New York: Warner Books, 1994.
The Voices of Robby Wilde by Elizabeth Kytle. Washington, DC: Seven Locks Press, 1987
Family Experiences
Imagining Robert by Jay Neugeboren. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1997.
Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings by Simon Clea. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
My Sister’s Keeper by M. Moorman. New York: Norton, 1992.
The Four of Us by E. Swados. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991.
About the Mental Health System
9 Highland Road by Michael Winerip. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness by Jay Neugeboren. William Morrow & Co., 1999.
Self-Help
Living Without Depression and Manic Depression: A Workbook for Maintaining Mood Stability by Mary Ellen Copeland, New Harbinger Publications, 1994.
The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression by Mary Ellen Copeland. New Harbinger Publications, 1992.
Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You by Richard O’Conner, Ph.D.
Videotapes
“Families Coping with Mental Illness,” 1995. The Mental Illness Education Project, Inc. (1-800-343-5540)
“I’m Still Here: The Truth About Schizophrenia,” 1997. Wheeler Communications Group, Inc.
“Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia,” 1995. Nancy Andreason, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Mental Health Clinical Research Center, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
“Uncertain Journey: Families Coping with Serious Mental Illness,” 45 minutes, 1995. Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Audiovisual Education.
Organizations
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), Colonial Place Three, 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22201, 1-800-950-6264 - http://www.nami.org.
NAMI-NC, 309 West Millbrook Road, Suite 121, Raleigh, NC 27609, 800-451-9682 (NC only) or 919-788-0801 - http://www.naminc.org/.
Mental Health Association in Orange County (MHA-OC), 302 W. Weaver Street, Carrboro, NC 27510, 919-942-8083 - http://mhaorangeco.org/.
National Mental Health Association, 2000 N. Beauregard Street, 6th Floor Alexandria, VA 22311, (800) 969-6642 or 703-684-7722 - http://www.nmha.org/.
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