Depression


Art Film Literature


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Degas, Edgar     The Glass of Absinthe
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gauguin, Paul     Self-Portrait with Halo
Goya, Francisco     Courtyard with Lunatics
    El sueƱo de la razon produce monstruos (the sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
Kahlo, Frida     Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
    The Dance of Life
    Madonna
    The Scream
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Picasso, Pablo     The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    Science and Charity
    The Tragedy
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Sickert, Walter Richard     Ennui
Sigler, Hollis     Hoping to Bring Her Life Together...It's Not Hard, It Just Takes Time
    To Kiss the Spirits: Now, This Is What It Is Really Like
Smith, Kiki     Josephine
Sugimoto, Henry     Jerome Camp
Van Gogh, Vincent     Portrait of Dr. Gachet
    Self-Portrait
    Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Worsham, Erin Brady     Headturner


Film


    About Schmidt
    Alice Neel
    American Beauty
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    The Body Beautiful
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Brain Candy
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    The Eighth Day
    Frances
    Garden State
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Illness as Experience
    Iris
    Magnificent Obsession
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    A Midwife's Tale
    Monsoon Wedding
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Murderball
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Ordinary People
    Pieces of April
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    The Snake Pit
    The Station Agent
    Sylvia
    Thin
    Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
    The Three Faces of Eve
    The War Zone
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    A Woman Under the Influence
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare


Literature


Adler, C. S.     The Shell Lady's Daughter
Adolphsen, Peter     Machine
Akhmatova, Anna     Twenty-First. Night. Monday.
Allen, Dick     Parents' Support Group
Andersson, Claes     Poems in Our Absence
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Twilight Years
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Auden, W. H.     Letter to a Wound
    Surgical Ward
Austen, Jane     Sense and Sensibility
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
B., David     Epileptic
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Bauer, Mark S., ed.     A Mind Apart
Beagle, Peter S.     Come Lady Death
Berg, Elizabeth     Talk Before Sleep
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Bissell, Tom     Death Defier
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bogan, Louise     Evening in the Sanitarium
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Breznik, Melitta     Night Duty
Bronson, Richard     Search for Oz
Brooks, Gwendolyn     sick man looks at flowers
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Smoke: Poems
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Blizzard
    The Speckled Rash
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burroughs, Augusten     Dry
    Running with Scissors
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Susan Woldenberg     Black Bag Moon
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Calvert, Patricia     Picking Up the Pieces
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Campo, Rafael     The Enemy
    The Mental Status Exam
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Capek, Karel     Vertigo
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
Carver, Raymond     Vitamins
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Caspers, Nona     Vegetative States
Chao, Patricia     Monkey King: A Novel
Charach, Ron     Dungenessque
    Elephant Street
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Beauties
    The Examining Magistrate
    Excellent People
    Ivanov
    The Man in a Case
    Rothschild's Fiddle
    Three Years
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
Cohen, Robert     Inspired Sleep
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Couloumbis, Audrey     Getting Near to Baby
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
Davis, Cortney     I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeQuincey, Thomas     Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Dickinson, Emily     After great pain, a formal feeling comes
    I felt a funeral in my brain
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
    What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    The Lifted Veil
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
FitzGerald, James     What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Attempt to Redeem the Past
Flaherty, Alice W.     The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     The Road from Colonus
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Of Love and Other Demons
Garcia Morales, Adelaida     The South
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.     Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Goellnicht, Donald C.     The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von     The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goldsmith, Barbara     Obsessive Genius. The Inner World of Marie Curie
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Green, Gerald     To Brooklyn with Love
Groopman, Jerome E.     Kirk
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haddon, Mark     A Spot of Bother
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
Harjo, Joy     The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hearle, Kevin     In Memorium
Hemingway, Ernest     A Clean, Well-lighted Place
    Hills Like White Elephants
    In Another Country
Henderson, Cary Smith     Partial View: An Alzheimer's Journal
Herbert, Mary Kennan     On the Couch
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hirsch, Edward     I Need Help
Hirshbein, Laura D.     American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hornby, Nick     A Long Way Down
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
James, Henry     Daisy Miller: A Study
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jamison, Kay Redfield     Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
    An Unquiet Mind
Jarrell, Randall     Nestus Gurley
Jauhar, Sandeep     Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
Keats, John     Ode on Melancholy
Kenyon, Jane     Having it Out with Melancholy
    Now Where
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
    The Pear
    The Sick Wife
    Sun and Moon
Kirschner, Elizabeth     My Life as a Doll
Knapp, Caroline     Drinking: A Love Story
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Laffitte, Sophie     Chekhov: 1860 - 1904
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Hard Laughter
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larsen, Nella     Quicksand
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
Lawson, Henry     'Water Them Geraniums'
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lesser, Rika     All We Need of Hell
Lessing, Doris     To Room Nineteen
Lieberman, Michael     Sojourn at Elmhurst
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
    Homework
Livingstone, Douglas     The Visionary
Lodge, David     Deaf Sentence
    Therapy
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Lowell, Robert     Skunk Hour
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
    Love and Friendship
Lynch, Thomas     Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Mansfield, Katherine     In A German Pension: 13 Stories
    The Man Without a Temperament
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Marsden, John     So Much to Tell You
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McConkey, James     To a Distant Island
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McEwan, Ian     Black Dogs
McFarland, Dennis     A Face at the Window
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
    Your Sightless Days
Moran, Thomas     The Man in the Box
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Murray, Les     Burning Want
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nemirovsky, Irene     Suite Francaise
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newborn, Barbara     Return to Ithaca
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
O'Connor, Flannery     The Lame Shall Enter First
O'Neill, Eugene     The Iceman Cometh
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
    A Personal Matter
Otsuka, Julie     When the Emperor Was Divine
Padilla, Ignacio     Amends in Halak-Proot
Patrick, John     The Hasty Heart
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Percy, Walker     The Message in the Bottle
    The Second Coming
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Plath, Sylvia     The Bell Jar
    Insomniac
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Price, Margaret     Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Raeburn, Daniel     Vessels
Ray, David     The Endless Search: A Memoir
Rayfield, Donald     Anton Chekhov. A Life
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Rilke, Rainer Maria     The Song the Dwarf Sings
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Robinson, David J.     Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Richard Cory
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rodowsky, Colby     Remembering Mog
Roethke, Theodore     In a Dark Time
    Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sachs, Marilyn     The Fat Girl
Sacks, Oliver     Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Sandblom, Philip     Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music
Sarton, May     Recovering
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schramm, T., ed.     Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression
Schulz, Bruno     Father's Last Escape
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Referred Pain
    So You're Going to Have a New Body !
Sebold, Alice     Lucky
Selzer, Richard     The Exact Location of the Soul
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    King Lear
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Sheed, Wilfrid     In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     To Mary Shelley
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     The House of God
    Mount Misery
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Showalter, Elaine     Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Simonds, Merilyn     The Convict Lover: A True Story
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
    Prozac Diary
    Welcome to My Country
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stein, Gertrude     Three Lives
Steinbeck, John     Tortilla Flat
Styron, William     Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Takakuwa, K. M., et al., eds.     What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tan, Amy     The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart)     Geriatric
Tischler, Victoria, ed.     Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Urquhart, Jane     The Underpainter
Van Duyn, Mona     Letters from a Father
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Waring, Belle     Dark Blonde
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     Under the Knife
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Ethan Frome
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
    Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
Williams, William Carlos     I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Yalom, Irvin     Fat Lady
    When Nietzsche Wept
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children