Psychiatry | Psychiatry
Mar.14.2012
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication. As new drugs have come on the market and diagnoses have proliferated, prescriptions have increased many times over. The issue has sparked heated debates, with most arguments breaking down...
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Aug.31.2010
“Magical Shrinking: Stumbling Through Bipolar Disorder,” is my personal account of a journey through severe mental illness and addiction. My first book, “No Guarantees,” was published by New Discovery Press in 1993 and describes overcoming addiction as a teenager.
I thought I was destined for...
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Jul.21.2010
What is it like to work inside a state hospital or to be a patient in such a hospital? What is it like to live inside the mind of such a patient? This tragi-comedic novel takes the reader inside the asylum, inside the worlds of three central characters: a narrator who has taken refuge from his...
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Oct.25.2009
Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing—except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make.
But Laura's promise results in another death. Her husband's. And after...
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Nov.16.2008
LIFE INSIDE, a memoir by Mindy Lewis (Atria Books, 2002; Washington Square Press, 2003; 358 pgs.), explores the inner life of an adolescent girl confined for 27 months to the adolescent unit of the NYS Psychiatric Institute in the mid-1960s. A vivid first person exploration of life inside a...
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