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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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English
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"Internal Family Systems (IFS) has transformed the practice of psychotherapy. Its breakthrough revelation is that we each contain an "internal family" of distinct parts -- and that treating these parts with curiosity, respect, and empathy vastly expands our capacity to heal. Here, the creator of IFS presents the ideal layperson's guide for understanding this empowering, effective, and non-pathologizing approach to self-discovery, wellness, and transformation."--back...
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English
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"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"--
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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...
5) Blue: season
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English
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"A moment ago, Molly was a promising musician and graduate student. Now, she's calling herself Lucia and struggling to find her feet in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Could the story in Molly's journals--of memory, trauma and Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce--hold the key?"--
6) The bell jar
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
[1st U.S. ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Esther Greenwood, a talented college student, finds herself estranged from her family and resigned to a conventional lifestyle and descends into depression and mental illness.
7) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
8) Halloween
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet, but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, Michael Myers, a ten year old boy, brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution he has been placed in and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage. He is pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.
11) Verónica
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
Español
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"Basada en hechos reales, Verónica narra una historia acontecida en Madrid en los años 90. Inspirada en el extraño caso Vallecas, aún sin resolver, la película se centra Verónica, una adolescente que tras hacer una ouija con unas amigas, es asediada por presencias sobrenaturales que quieren hacer daño a su familia." --
"A female psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman...
12) The grudge 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all.
13) Halloween
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Halloween night. A young Michael Myers butchers his older sister with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a mental institution only to return home and terrorize the town and babysitter Laurie.
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget...
14) K-Pax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Collector's ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stranger claiming to be from another planet mystifies psychiatrists and scientists.
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Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first African-American agent to serve on the White House Secret Service detail describes the racism he confronted, his efforts to expose the Secret Service's negligence in JFK's assassination, and the destruction of his career due to a false bribery charge.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Klee's father was the center of his life. He introduced Klee to the great museums of New York City and the important artists on their walls, he told him stories made of myths and magic. Until his death. Now, forced to live in the suburbs with his mom, Klee can't help but feel he's lost all the identifying parts of himself-- his beloved father, weekly trips to the MoMA, and the thrumming energy of New York City. That is until he...
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