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- Subject: Mood Disorders Bibliography - Biographical
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- Summary: This contains a list of books compiled from the personal
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- MOOD DISORDERS BOOK LIST
- ========================
-
- The entire list exceeds 100 books. The following is a biographical
- genre subset of the list for brevity. A seperate posting will follow
- at some point, with non-fiction books.
-
- Certainly, not all the books are entirely about mood disorders, but as
- with many people in this global self-help community, they are dealing
- with more than one issue too.
-
- This list is only possible with your help, so scan your book shelves,
- browse through your local library or book store, bug your friends, and
- send in any books you don't find on this list, or make corrections and
- additions. The only reason these books are on this list is because
- someone
- has submitted them.
-
- It is our sincere hope that people dealing with the issues surrounding
- mood disorders, will be able to empower themselves through the
- information in these books.
-
- If you have any additions, updates, corrections, suggestions, etc. for
- this list, please send email to <depbooks@bigfoot.com>.
-
- Would you like to sponsor this list and help us keep this list updated
- and accurate? Do you have access to the Books in Print database? Please
- contact us at <depbooks@bigfoot.com>.
-
- Note: This current update (1998/7/16) only corrects email addresses and
- other contact information. No books have been added at this time.
-
-
- BOOK LIST
- =========
-
- Genre: Biographical
- -------------------
-
- Title: A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
- Author: Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) and Gloria Hochman
- Publisher: Bantam Books, 1992
- ISBN: 0-553-07256-0
- Comments: Patty Duke's very personal account of her struggle with
- manic-depression. Duke writes every other chapter, while Hochman writes
- about the more clinical aspects of manic-depression.
-
- Title: A Season in Hell
- Author: Percy Knauth
- Publisher: Harper and Row, 1975
- Comments: Hard to come by.
-
- Title: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
- Author: Jamison, Kay Redfield
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
- ISBN: 0-679-44374-6
- Comments: Dr. Jamison's personal testimony of her own struggle with
- manic-depressive illness since adolescence, and how it has shaped her
- life. She shows tremendous courage in writing the book at all, for the
- stigma attached to all mental illness, including manic-depressive
- illness
- is very real. Since she herself is a professor psychiatry, and a
- world-class authority on manic-depression, this book represents a
- genuine
- "coming out of the closet", so to speak.
-
- Title: Beast (The): A Reckoning with Depression
- Author: Tracy Thompson
- Publisher: Putnma and Sons, 1995
- Comments: Thompson is a reporter, and has appeared on TV regarding her
- battles with depression.
-
- Title: Beyond the Darkness: My Near-Death Journey to the Edge of Hell
- and
- Back
- Author: Angie Fenimore
- Publisher: , 1995
- Comments: An autobiography of a suicide. An alternative to the "embraced
- by the light" journeys so well documented in many other books. Excerpt:
- "I began to fear that if people didn't hear the other side of the near-
- death experience, they might interpret these marvelous accounts to mean
- that suicide could bring release from their problems. As I learned,
- nothing
- could be further from the truth."
-
- Title: Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Author: Marlon Brando, with Robert Lindsey
- Publisher: Random House, NY,, 1994
- ISBN: 0-679-4103-9
- Comments: In Brando's own words, a record of his own struggle with
- emotions including depression, rage, anxiety.
-
- Title: Breaking the Silence
- Author: Marriette Hartley
- Comments: About the actresses struggles with coming to terms with the
- suicide of her father and her advocacy work in preventing suicide.
-
- Title: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
- Author: Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) (with Kenneth Duran)
- Publisher: Bantam Books, 1987
- ISBN: 0-553-05209-9
- Comments: Patty Duke's autobiography.
-
- Title: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
- Author: William Styron
- Publisher: Vintage, 1990
- ISBN: 0-679-73639-5
- Comments: Good, but not great, heavy writing style with not much info.
- --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU
-
- Title: Frost and Flower: My Life with Manic Depression
- Author: Kaye Gibbons
- Publisher: Wisteria Press, Atlanta, 1995
- Comments: Limited edition. Writer's struggle with manic depression.
-
- Title: Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist's Personal Journey Out of His
- Depression
- Author: Norman S. Elder
- Publisher: Wiley, 1982
- Comments: This is a bit old, and hard to come by, but written by a
- psychologist about his depression. Interesting, but it seemed to me
- that
- his depression was on the mild side. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU
-
- Title: Hope and Recovery: A Mother-Daughter Story about Anorexia
- Nervosa,
- Bulimia, and Manic Depression
- Author: Emma Lou Thayne and Becky Thayne Markosian
- Publisher: Franklin Watts Inc., NY, 1992
- ISBN: 0-531-11140-7
- Comments: A cowritten story of a young woman's struggle with these
- illnesses, and how she came out the other side.
-
- Title: Imbroglio: Rising to the Challenge of Borderline Personality
- Disorder
- Author: Janice M. Cauwels
- Publisher: Norton, 1992
- ISBN: 0-393-03349-X
-
- Title: On the Edge of Darkness: Coversations about Conquering
- Depression.
- Author: Kathy Cronkite
- Publisher: Doubleday, 1994
- ISBN: 0-385-42194-X
- Comments: Written by Walter Cronkites daughter. Features a variety of
- personal stories by herself , other celebrities, and famous people about
- their experiences with depression.
-
- Title: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
- Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994
- ISBN: 0-395-68093-x
- Comments: A great book, easily readable. I've felt the same experiences
- and had the same questions and conclusions in my mind as the young
- author, Wurtzel. This is an important, and timely book, not just for
- twentynothings. If you find that people cannot understand your
- depression, maybe you should hand them this book to read. --Contributor.
- Ad notes: "An electrifying memoir about a young woman's 5-year battle
- with
- depression.
-
- Title: Speaking of Sadness
- Author: David Karp
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996
- Comments: Book by a Sociology professor, writing about his own
- depression. It is heavy reading. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU
-
- Title: Undercurrents
- Author: Marth Manning
- Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994
- Comments: Good book, written by a psychotherapist about her own bout
- with
- depression. --Barbara Zak, zakba@UMDNJ.EDU
-
- Title: We Heard the Angels of Madness: One Family's Struggle with Manic
- Depression
- Author: Diane and Lisa Berger
- ISBN: 0-688-09178-4
- Comments: Forwarded by Alexander Vuckovic, M.D. It was written by a
- mother who had a son stricken by manic-depression at 19 and the rough
- road
- they walked to get him the help he needed. Very heartfelt and well
- written.
-
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- Compilation Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 The Self-Help Information
- Center, a service of the Self-Help Informatics Coalition. Comments are
- not necessarily the opinions of the Self-Help Informatics Coalition.
-
- Special thanks to Joy A. Ikelman <parrot@frii.com>, and Barbara Zak
- <zakba@UMDNJ.EDU>, Laura <laurarain@aol.com> for major contributions.
- And thanks to everyone and anyone who has contributed.
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