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1) Big Sur
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 37 min., 21 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses interfere with the ability to think, act and feel. When acutely ill, a person may lose contact with reality. The symptoms are often very distressing for people affected and those who care for them. These Speaking from experience video clips offer first-hand accounts from people who have experienced Schizophrenia. It was produced in partnership with SANE Australia.
3) Psychosis
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This playlist features a discussion about early psychosis and an assessment of a person displaying psychotic symptoms with co-current cannabis abuse.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 99 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Twisted, apocalyptic satire, This is not a movie envisions the end of the world through the bi-polar mind of a strung-out pop-culture addict. Starring Edward Furlong and Peter Coyote, with a jagged, atmospheric score from Slash.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the acclaimed Criminals comes a spellbinding new novel that confirms Margot Livesey's place "right up there," as Liz Smith wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "in the realm of P. D. James and the esteemed Patricia Highsmith."
What if — by stroke of fortune — you could start afresh, could wipe away that catastrophic blunder in your past? And to what lengths would you go to establish that in fact you'd...
What if — by stroke of fortune — you could start afresh, could wipe away that catastrophic blunder in your past? And to what lengths would you go to establish that in fact you'd...
6) Breakdown
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 31
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller featuring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis confirms his status as today's preeminent practitioner of saber-sharp storytelling. Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Molly Hartley hopes that with her mother locked away in a mental ward, she can forget the violence of her family's past and start over. She has found a new life, a new school and a new boyfriend. When her secret past and haunting nightmares continue, Molly fears she has inherited her mother's psychosis. What she doesn't know is that she's inherited something else, a secret that is far more horrifying than any fate she can imagine and a destiny she...
8) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses...
9) K-PAX
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Collector's ed.; widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Manhattan psychiatrist, who thinks he's seen it all until he's assigned to analyze Prot, a psychiatric patient who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. He is convinced that Prot is "a convincing delusional," but his cynicism turns to open-minded fascination as Prot's case reveals a combination of otherworldly insight and all-too-human trauma, prompting an earthbound explanation for Prot's allegedly alien origins.
Publisher
Seville/Filmed Ent/Pdx
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 560 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannibal is on the run in Europe, accompanied by his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier, sporting a new identity, but servicing the same insatiable appetite. As the lives of Will and Jack converge toward Hannibal again, each with their own motivations to catch him once and for all, their deadly dance turns in startling and unexpected ways.
11) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Special ed. ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
12) Julia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is, when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 226 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for...
15) Audition
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Uncut special edition; widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A middle-aged widower is urged by his teenage son and film producer friend to start dating again. They hold a phony audition, and the widower falls for a ballerina with a suspicious past. Their courtship veers from polite romance to psycho nightmare!
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brain XP: Living with Mental Illness, A young Teenager's Perspective" is the personal, unashamed, and brave story of Christine Frey. In her own teenage writing style, Christine describes her struggle with early onset psychosis. The terrible symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions, began when Christine was twelve years old. In her personal account of life lived with anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, Christine ensures...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
p1998, 2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 1 hr., 26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Laurie Strode, using an assumed name and now the dean of a Northern California private school, is still struggling with the horrifying 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Myers. When he reappears, she must conquer her fears and battle him one last time, for the life of her son hangs in the balance.
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (various paging) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and ... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two couples, Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise, are out on the road hoping to write a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. The four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from. They pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. The two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. When the...
20) The bipolar child: the definitive and reassuring guide to childhood's most misunderstood disorder
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
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