Books and Articles — Psychosis

Books for Adults

Deveson, A.Tell Me I'm Here: One Family's Experience of Schizophrenia
Holman, V.Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memoirs From a Decade Gone Mad
Lachenmeyer, N.The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Nasrala, HenryThe Patient with Schizophrenia
Neugeboren, J.Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir
Saks, E.R.The Center Can Not Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Schiller & Bennett, L. & A.The Quiet Room
Sheehan, S.Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Simon, C.Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
Slater, LaurenWelcome to My Country
Steele, DanThe Day the Voices Stopped
Torray, ESurviving Schizophrenia
Wagner & Spiro, P.S. & C.Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia

Articles and Other Resources

Cat Parasite May Cause Mental Illness, by Frank Roylance. The Vancouver Sun, August 07, 2010.  “Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: A common parasite spread by cats.&rdquo

Sexual Assault Increases Risk for Psychosis and Schizophrenia, by Jessica Ward Jones. Psych Central, June 24, 2010.

CBT for Psychosis Reduces Depressive Symptoms, by John M. Grohol. Psych Central, June 10, 2010.

Tools to Reduce Stigma of Mental Illness, by Rick Nauert. Psych Central, May 14, 2010.  “Researchers have announced a new intervention that can improve the quality of life and self-esteem among persons with serious mental illness.&rdquo

In Haiti, Mental Health System Is in Collapse, by Deborah Sontag. New York Times, March 19, 2010.  “Haiti's earthquake has exposed the inadequacies of its mental health services at the moment they are most needed.&rdquo

Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind, by Benedict Carey. New York Times, February 10, 2010.  “A panel of doctors are revising psychiatry's encyclopedia of mental disorders, the guidebook that largely determines where society draws the line between normal and not normal, between eccentricity and illness, between self-indulgence and self-destruction -- and, by extension, when and how patients should be treated. The revisions --to be published, if adopted, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due in 2013 -- would be the first in a decade.&rdquo

The evolution of residential schools, by Phyllis Hanlon. New England Psychologist, October 15, 2009.

Massachusetts expands mental health parity, by Nan Shnitzler. New England Psychologist, October 15, 2009.

Staying Sane May Be Easier Than You Think, by John Cloud. Time Magazine, June 22, 2009.

A Guy, a Car: Beyond Schizophrenia, by Ronald Pies. New York Times, May 05, 2009.  “Choosing hope over pessimism, and setting a patient free.&rdquo

Bullied Children Develop Psychotic Symptoms, by Jennifer Warner. WebMD Health News, May 04, 2009.

The Real Face of Mental Health Stands Up to Win the Campaign of Many, by T.R. Johnson. thealternativepress.com, March 23, 2009.

Gene-Hunters Find Hope and Hurdles in Schizophrenia Studies, by Nicholas Wade. The New York Times, July 31, 2008.

Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics, by Duff Wilson. New York Times.  “Some children from poor families may be receiving powerful drugs because it is deemed a cheaper way to treat a problem.&rdquo

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