A mother recounts the first 20 years of her mentally-ill son's life

A re-creation of the mind of a schizophrenic, this story recounts the author's long battle with schizophrenia--beginning in childhood when haunting voices called her into another world--and her ultimate triumph over mental illness

Product Description: In a Darkness: A Story of Young Suicide

Recounts a thirteen-year-old's descent into schizophrenia and her subsequent recovery through nutritional therapy and visual perception training

Recounts the devastating effects of schizophrenia and the long process of a cure, telling the true story of a woman tortured by inner obsessions, and her re-entrance into functioning society

Product Description: Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie starring Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, and Lynn Redgrave. When Margaret Moorman's older sister, Sally, was first hospitalized with schizophrenia in 1959, her family denied the truth to neighbors, friends-and even themselves...read more

Through poignant vignettes, a Texas woman traces her relationship with her mother, whose guardian she became at sixteen when her mother was diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and recounts her struggle to care for her. Reprint. K. PW.

In a compelling portrait of schizophrenia and its impact on one family, the author describes his son's twenty-five-year battle with the ailment, the usually ineffective treatments, and the biomedical therapies that have revolutionized psychiatry. 35,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Baker, William R. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The autobiography of Clover, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, tells of her isolated childhood, her terrifying thirty- year journey through the mental health system, and her recovery after meeting supportive people who taught her how to love.

The author reflects on the loss of his father to schizophrenia and madness, piecing together the fragments of a life that disintigrated with the onset of the disease, leaving his fathera brilliant sociology professorparanoid, estranged from his family, and living in extreme poverty. $30,000 ad/promo.

The author's memoir of his brother's descent into schizophrenia begins with Michael's first 'break' in the 1980s and traces his grinding fall into drug addiction and madness.

Recounts the author's three-decade struggle with schizophrenia and reveals how he was able to overcome the disease and create a new life. (view table of contents)

The author's memoir of his brother's descent into schizophrenia begins with Michael's first 'break' in the 1980s and traces his grinding fall into drug addiction and madness.

Margaret is on a mission. The murder, suicide of her loving husband and son launched a personal journey to raise awareness and help other families impacted by mental health issues. This book tells the story of Margaret's personal tragedy and the inner strength that sustains her. She is telling the story with the hope that others with mental health challenges 'won't slip through the cracks' of the mental health services system.

The daughter of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia recounts her childhood with a mentally ill mother and her efforts to understand her mother's condition.

Presents the inner life of a schizophrenic through diary excerpts and interviews with family members and doctors

Product Description: The evidence at hand: an autobiography - complete with their mother's edits - written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published as fiction; perjured court documents hidden in a drawer for decades...read more

When Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike--fourteen years her senior and a student at Duke University--started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Within a few years, his world had begun to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother and grandmother, and interviewing old friends of Mike's, Molly began to piece together a picture of her brother's life, before and after the illness struck--the story of how a gifted and well-liked student and athlete was overtaken by a terrible illness that rendered him unrecognizable. Now she tells that story--which is also the story of her own demons and of the ways in which a seemingly perfect family can slowly fall apart, and in the end, regroup. Circles Around the Sun is a work of extraordinary intensity and drama from a wonderfully gifted writer.

Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic Sylvia Frumkin, whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock treatments, and drug therapy