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From: SHIC@aol.com (Self-Help Information Center)
Newsgroups: alt.support.depression,alt.answers,news.answers
Subject: Mood Disorders Bibliography - Biographical
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Summary: This contains a list of books compiled from the personal
recommendations of the members/readers/participants of the
Walkers-in-Darkness & Pendulum mailing lists, the
alt.support.depression newsgroup, and the Mood Disorders Support
Network support group on AOL.
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MOOD DISORDERS BOOK LIST
========================
The list is exceeds 110 books, and it's growing all the time. 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. It's taken well over a year to update this list for
various personal and technical reasons
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. (I don't have as complete information on as many books I'd
like.) The only reason these books are on this list is because someone
has submitted them.
If you have any additions, updates, corrections, suggestions, etc. for
this list, please send email to "SHIC@aol.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 SHIC@aol.com
It is our sincere hope that people dealing with the issues surrounding
mood disorders, will be able to empower themselves through the
information about these books.
This list is currently broken into two seperate postings. One for
biographical books, and the other for non-fiction. We hope to break it
down further into smaller posts.
Key:
+ = Added since last posting
& = Updated/corrected since last posting
BOOK LIST
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Genre: Biographical
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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 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>, L. J. West <lorarain@aol.com> for major contributions.
And thanks to everyone and anyone who has contributed.
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