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Books

9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill
by Michael Winerip
(Vintage Books, 1995)
Paperback, ISBN: 679761608

A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(A Nobel Prize winner with schizophrenia)
By Sylvia Nasar
(Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Hardcover, ISBN: 0684819066

A Family Affair: Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness
by the Committee on Psychiatry and the Community
(American Psychiatric Press, 1987)
Paperback, ISBN: 0876304439

Another Way Home: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
By John Thorndike
(Penguin USA, 1997)
Paperback, ISBN: 0140265708

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods & Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison
(Knopf, 1995)
Paperback, ISBN: 679763309

Imagining Robert
My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir
by Jay Neugeboren
(William Morrow & Company, 1997)
Hardcover, ISBN: 688149685

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
by Susan Sheehan
(Random House, 1983)
Paperback, ISBN: 394713788

Mad House
Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblingsby Clea Simon
(Doubleday, 1997)
Hardcover, ISBN: 385478526

My Mother's Keeper:
A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia
By Tara Elgin Holley with Joe Holley
(Bard, 1998)
Paperback, ISBN: 0380723026

Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
by E. Fuller Torrey
(John Wiley & Sons, 1996)
Hardcover, ISBN: 471161616

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
by William Anthony
(Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 1990)
Hardcover, ISBN: 1878512005

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers
by E. Fuller Torrey
(Harper Perennial Library, 1995)
Paperback, ISBN: 60950765

Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia
by Anne Deveson
(Penguin USA, 1992)
Paperback, ISBN: 140173390

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by Lori Schiller & Amanda Bennett
(Warner Books, 1994)
Paperback, ISBN: 446671339

Videos

Dead Blue: Surviving Depression
American Undercover documentary shown on HBO-TV (1998); 60 minutes.
To purchase, contact your local video store.

Mental Illness: The Family's Story
AMI of Southwestern Pennsylvania (1997); 30 minutes.
To purchase, contact AMI: 412-366-3788.

Recognition and Intervention: Serious Mental Illness
Available for borrowing or viewing at more than 2,000 public libraries and 260 West Coast Video outlets throughout the United States. Check your local phonebook for locations and availability.