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Memorandum
To:
Mental Health Resource File
From:
Kathy Wayland, Ph.D.
Date:
October 20, 2004
Re:
Bibliography: The Phenomenology of Mental Illness
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND ORGANIC IMPAIRMENTS:
UNDERSTANDING THE INNER EXPERIENCE AND SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL
ILLNESS THROUGH NON-FICTION, LITERATURE, AND (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY1
I.
PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS
Schizophrenia
Fiction
Kaysen, Susanna. (1993). Girl, Interrupted. New York: Vintage Books.
Lamb, Wally. (1999). I Know This Much is True. New York: Harper.
Vonnegut, Mark. The Eden Express.
(Auto)Biography
Deveson, Anne. (1991). Tell Me Why I’m Here: One Family’s
Experience of Schizophrenia. New York: Penguin Books.
1
These suggestions are not offered as definitive examples of the mental health phenomena
under discussion, but rather as a method for informing your understanding of key issues.
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Holley, Tara Elgin, with Joe Holley. (1997). My Mother’s Keeper: A
Daughter’s Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia. New
York: William Morrow and Company.
Holman, Virginia. (2003). Rescuing Patty Hearst. New York: Simon and
Schuster.
Kytle, Elizabeth. (1995). The Voices of Robby Wilde. University of
Georgia Press.
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel. (2000). The Outsider: A Journey into My
Father’s Struggle with Madness. New York: Broadway Books.
Nasar, Sylvia. (1998). A Beautiful Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Schiller, Lori, & Bennett, Amanda. (1994). The Quiet Room. New York:
Warner Books.
Sechehaye, M., & Conroy, F. (1951, 1968). Autobiography of a
Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of “Renee”. New York: Penguin
Books.
Steele, Ken & Berman, Claire. (2001). The Day the Voices Stopped: A
Memoir of Madness and Hope. New York: Basic Books.
Nonfiction
Miller, Rachel & Mason, Susan. (2002). Diagnosis Schizophrenia:
Comprehensive Resource. New York: Columbia University Press.
Swartz, Mimi. “Family Secret.” New Yorker, November 17, 1997.
Torrey, E. Fuller. (1995). Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for
Families, Consumer and Providers, 3rd Ed. New York: Harper.
Paranoia/Delusional Disorder
Fiction
Dexter, Pete. (1988). Paris Trout. New York: Penguin Books.
O’Brien, Tim. (1995). In the Lake of the Woods. New York: Penguin
USA.
O’Connor, Flannery. (1962). Wise Blood. New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giraux.
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II.
MOOD DISORDERS: UNIPOLAR AND BIPOLAR DEPRESSION
Unipolar Disorder: Major Depression
Autobiography
Solomon, Andrew. “Anatomy of Melancholy.” New Yorker, January 12,
1998, 46-61.
Styron, William. (1990). Darkness Visible. New York: Vintage Books.
Thompson, Tracy. (1995). The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression.
New York: G.P. Putnam
Fiction
Cunningham, Michael. (1998). The Hours. New York: Picador.
Percy, Walker. (1999). The Second Coming. Picador USA.
Nonfiction
Cronkite, Kathy. (1994). On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations about
Conquering Depression. New York: Delta Publishing.
Head, John. (2004). Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and
Overcoming Depression in Black Men. New York: Broadway Books.
Bipolar Disorder: Manic Depression
(Auto)biography
Duke, Patty. (1993). A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive
Illness. Bantam Books.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. (1995). An Unquiet Mind. New York: Alfred
Knopf.
Lyden, Jacki. (1997). Daughter of the Queen of Sheba.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Boston:
Steel, Danielle. (1998). His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina. New
York: Delacorte Press.
Worthen, Mary. (2001). Journey Not Chosen, Destination Not Known:
Living with Bipolar Disorder. Little Rock: August House Publishers.
Bibliography: Phenomenology of Mental Illness and Organic Impairments (cont.)
Fiction
Gibbons, Kaye. (1995). Sights Unseen. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Nonfiction
Jamison, Kay Redfield. (1993). Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive
Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York: Free Press Paperbacks.
Mikowitz, David. (2002). The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What
You and Your Family Need to Know. New York: Guilford Press.
Papalos, Demitri, & Papalos, Janice. (1999). The Bipolar Child: The
Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Understood
Disorder. New York: Broadway Books.
Suicide
Nonfiction
Alvarez, A. (1971, 1990). The Savage God: A Study of Suicide. New
York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. (1999). Night Falls Fast: Understanding
Suicide. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
III.
BRAIN IMPAIRMENTS and DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Mental Retardation
Fiction
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorders/Asperger’s Syndrome
(Auto)Biography
Axline, Virginia. (1990). Dibs in Search of Self. Ballantine Books.
Grandin, Temple. (1995). Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from
My Life with Autism. New York: Doubleday.
Greenfield, Josh. (1970). A Child Called Noah: A Family Journey. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch.
Willey, Liane. (1999). Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger’s
Syndrome. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Williams, Donna.
(1992). Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary
Autobiography of an Autistic. New York: Times Books.
Bibliography: Phenomenology of Mental Illness and Organic Impairments (cont.)
Nonfiction
Rothenberg, Mira. (1960, 1987). Children with Emerald Eyes. New
York: E.P. Dalton.
Fiction
Haddon, Mark. (2003). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. New York: Doubleday.
Epilepsy/Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
(Auto)Biography
McLean, Teresa. (1996). Seized. London: Richard Cohen Books.
Nonfiction
Hopkins, Anthony, & Appleton, Richard. (1996). Epilepsy: The Facts.
Oxford University Press.
LaPlante, Eve. Seized. HarperCollins.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Nonfiction
Dorris, Michael. (1989). The Broken Cord. New York: Harper & Row.
Brain Dysfunction
(Auto)biography
Bryant, Beverly. (1992). In Search of Wings: A Journey Back from
Traumatic Brain Injury. Maine: Wings.
Osborn, Claudia. (1998). A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury from the
Inside Looking Out. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Nonfiction
Damasio, Antonio. (1994). Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the
Human Brain. New York: Avon Books.
Sacks, Oliver. (1985). The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and
other clinical tales. New York: Harper & Row.
Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings.
Sacks, Oliver. (1995). An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical
Tales.
Schoenbrodt, L. (Ed.) (2001). Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries:
A Parent’s Guide. Maryland: Woodbine House.
Stoler, Diane & Hill, Barbara. (1999). Coping with Mild Traumatic
Brain Injury: A Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with
Concussion/Brain Injury. New York: Avery.
IV.
ANXIETY DISORDERS
PTSD and Dynamics of Trauma2
Autobiography
Gorky, Maxim.
Books.
(1913, 1966).
My Childhood.
New York: Penguin
Kim, Elizabeth. (2000). Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary
Journey of a Korean War Orphan. New York: Doubleday.
Pelzer, Dave. (1993). A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to
Survive. Nebraska: Omaha Press.
Pelzer, Dave. (1997). The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the
Love of a Family. Dearfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications.
Raine, Nancy Venable. (1998). After Silence: Rape and My Journey
Back. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Sebold, Alice. (1999). Lucky. New York: Scribner.
Fiction
Allison, Dorothy. (1993). Bastard Out of Carolina. Plume.
Angelou, Maya. (1983). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Bantam
Books.
Barker, Pat. (1991, 1993, 1995). Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The
Ghost Road. New York: Penguin Books.
Carcaterra, Lorenzo. (1996). Sleepers. New York: Ballantine Books.
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying.
Fitch, Janet. White Oleander
Gibbons, Kaye. (1990). Ellen Foster. New York: Vintage Books.
2
See also the bibliography on psychological trauma.
Kingsolver, Barbara. (1993). Pigs in Heaven. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc.
Morrison, Toni. (2000). The Bluest Eye. New York: Knopf.
Oates, Joyce Carol. (2004???). Rape: A Love Story.
O’Brien, Tim. (1991). The Things They Carried. Broadway Books.
O’Brien, Tim. (1995). In the Lake of the Woods. New York: Penguin
USA.
Sebold, Alice. (2002). The Lovely Bones. New York: Scribner.
Smiley, Jane. (1991). A Thousand Acres. New York: Ballantine Books.
Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copefield.
Wambaugh, Joseph. The Onion Fields.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
Nonfiction
Chalsma, H. W. (1998). The Chambers of Memory: PTSD in the Life
Stories of U.S. Vietnam Veterans. London: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Shay, Jonathan. (1994). Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the
Undoing of Character. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.
Wood, Kieron. (1993). The Kilkenny Incest Case. Dublin: Poolberg
Press.
Poetry
Owen, Wilfred. (1920, 1965). The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen.
New York: New Directions Books.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Autobiography
Colas, Emily. (1998). Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an
Obsessive-Compulsive. New York: Pocket Books.
V.
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
Alcohol Addiction
Autobiography
Donohue, Timothy. (1996). In the Open: Diary of a Homeless
Alcoholic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Knapp, Carolyn. (1996). Drinking: A Love Story. New York: Dial
Press.
Cocaine/Crack Addition
Fiction
Ageyev, M. (translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim).
(1984). Novel With Cocaine. New York: Harper and Row.
Shell, Ray. (1994). Iced. New York: Random House.