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81) Serpent's kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the latest novel of the Elder Races, a Queen on the brink of sanity has no one to rely on except the Wyr warrior whose conviction is every bit as strong as his passion.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Author
Publisher
InterVarsityPress
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on surveys of pastors and the latest clinical research, as well as her family's personal experience, Amy Simpson reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and Christ calls us to love them well."--Back cover.
84) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the mascabre, based on Tolstoy's story The Wurdulak , itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. The nameless mentally ill man (Garko) is found wandering in the woods, his mind lost in fever dreams of gruesome, sexual imagery. After admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the man flashes back to his nightmarish encounter with a backwoods family whose dynasty...
86) Instinct
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), who is in prison for the criminally insane is set to be examined by a young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Gooding). Caulder will risk his life to get to the truth.
89) Cape Fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A prosecutor turned small-town lawyer and his family are terrorized by a sadistic, insane criminal that was put in jail by the prosecutor.
90) Helen
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
On the outside, Helen has it all, a loving family and a successful career, but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
91) Despair
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts to experience hallucinations. One day, he meets Felix and is sure that this man is his doppelganger. His delusional thinking leads him to hatch a plan to relieve him of his mental anguish.
92) The soloist
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Times reporter Lopez develops an unlikely friendship with a homeless musician.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an...
96) Keeping Keller
Author
Publisher
Bonneville
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1955, and few people understand or tolerate mental handicaps. For Beverly and Warren Vance, the daily struggle to live with their handicapped son, Keller, is taking its toll. Keller is large for his age and often aggressive, prone to throwing tantrums and breaking everything in sight. Beverly and Warren have been encouraged to institutionalize him, or at least keep him out of public view. But they decided long ago that trying to teach...
97) Madness
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Brooke Danvers is pretending to be fine. She's gotten so good at pretending that they're letting her leave inpatient therapy. Now she just has to fake it long enough for her parents and teachers to let their guard down. This time, when she's ready to end her life, there won't be anyone around to stop her. Then Brooke meets Derek. Derek is the only person who really gets what Brooke is going through, because he's going through it too. As they start...
98) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Still scarred from the trauma of being terrorized by a stalker, Sawyer Valentini receives treatments at the Highland Creek Behavioral Center. However, shortly after she unwittingly commits herself to the mental institution and is unable to leave, she catches sight of a facility staffer who, she is convinced, is actually her stalker. But is he real or a product of her delusion?
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When pigs fly (1993, 94 min., col.): Tells of Marty, a jazz musician down on his luck who gets help from two friendly ghosts with peculiar consequences.
Sleepwalk (1986, 75 min., col.): Nicole is approached by two men who want her to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript for them, but when she gets to work, the words she is rendering come to alarming life.
You are not I (1981, 48 min., b&w): based on a short story by Paul Bowles. It is the story...
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