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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

by Richard K. Baer

One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer’s office complaining of vague physical pains and depression. Odder still, she reveals that she’s suffering from a persistent memory problem. Routinely, she “loses” parts of her day, finding herself in places she doesn’t remember going to or being told about conversations she doesn’t remember having. Her problems are so pervasive that she... (more)

Sybil

The classic true story of a woman posessed by sixteen personalities

by Flora Rhea Schreiber

The incredible true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of child abuse who was diagnosed with the first multiple personality disorder, reveals that she played host to sixteen separate and distinct personalities before making the long journey to recovery. Reissue.

Hurry Down Sunshine

A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness

by Michael Greenberg

HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most sweltering months. “I feel like I’m traveling and traveling with nowhere to go back... (more)

Addition

by Toni Jordan

Everything counts . . . Grace Lisa Vandenburg orders her world with numbers: how many bananas she buys, how many steps she takes to the café, where she chooses to sit, how many poppy seeds are in her daily piece of orange cake. Every morning she uses 100 strokes to brush her hair, 160 strokes to brush her teeth. She remembers the day she started to count, how she used numbers to organize her adolescence, her... (more)

The search for a self

by Margaret Aagaard

The Maxx

The Maxx: Volume 1

by Sam Kieth, William Messner-Loebs

The Maxx, originally a 35-comic-book series, is a superhero parody whose costumed crusader is an insecure adolescent, his Gotham City the inexplicable world of sex and violence that adolescents find so attractive-repulsive. The Maxx is huge, purple with yellow claws and an upper plate of gleaming choppers. When down, he is homeless in a dumpster. Up or down, he is often with high-school hottie Julie, whose... (more)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Dsm-Iii-RAmerican Psychiatric Association

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Dsm-Iii-R

by American Psychiatric Association

A refining of the third edition of "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" to serve the psychiatric field in the interim period before the forth edition of this classification system is published in the mid-1990s. The text has been revised to include the latest data, with expanded sections on substance abuse, sleep disorders and a reorganization of the multi-axial system. The entire text has been... (more)

The Collector (Back Bay Books)

by John Fowles

The Driver's Seat (The New Directions Bibelots)

The Driver's Seat (The New Directions Bibelots)

by Muriel Spark

Lise, driven to distraction by an office job, leaves everything and flies south on holiday - in search of passionate adventure, the obsessional experience and sex. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the unnamed southern city.

Lectures on psychoanalytic psychiatryA. A Brill

Lectures on psychoanalytic psychiatry

by A. A Brill

Corporate Mentality

by Steven Piziks

Lance Michaels' body is filled with nanobots, which he sends out in invisible swarms to reprogram rogue "hives" out of existence. But when he is sent to difuse a hive that has taken over an entire planet, he finds that a psychotic child with control over nanobots like his own is directing the hive and preparing to control the entire galaxy.

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