Mental Illness


Art Film Literature


Art


Géricault, Théodore     The Madman
Goya, Francisco     Courtyard with Lunatics
    El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (the sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
Munch, Edvard     The Scream
Picasso, Pablo     The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    The Tragedy
Van Gogh, Vincent     A Corridor in the Asylum
    Portrait of Dr. Gachet
    Self-Portrait
    Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear


Film


    Almost Strangers
    Antonia's Line
    Beautiful Dreamers
    A Beautiful Mind
    The Bridge
    Bringing Out the Dead
    The Brood
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    Down Came a Blackbird
    Frances
    The Green Mile
    Harvey
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    In My Skin (Dans ma Peau)
    Infection (Kansen)
    Innerspace
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    Marvin's Room
    Melancholia
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Mystic River
    Nell
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Ordinary People
    Out of the Shadow
    Persona
    The President's Analyst
    Rain Man
    Regeneration
    Respiro
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Seraphine
    Shutter Island
    The Snake Pit
    The Son's Room
    Thin
    The Three Faces of Eve
    A Woman Under the Influence


Literature


Abse, Dannie     Pythagoras (Smith)
Adler, C. S.     The Shell Lady's Daughter
Allen, Dick     Parents' Support Group
Andersson, Claes     Poems in Our Absence
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Astley, Thea     The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander     Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800
Bambara, Toni Cade     The Salt Eaters
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Bauer, Mark S., ed.     A Mind Apart
Beernink, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)     Ward Rounds
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Berlin, Richard M.     Code Blue
Bishop, Elizabeth     Visits to St. Elizabeths
Bogan, Louise     Evening in the Sanitarium
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Bronte, Charlotte     Jane Eyre
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Smoke: Poems
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Morphine
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Cardinal, Marie     The Words to Say It
Carr, Caleb     The Alienist
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin)     The Father
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de     The Glass Graduate
Chamoiseau, Patrick     Texaco
Charach, Ron     Elephant Street
    Past Wildflowers
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Black Monk
    The Examining Magistrate
    Ivanov
    The Man in a Case
    The Shooting Party
    Three Years
    Ward 6
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     Miss Rosie
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Collins, Wilkie     Armadale
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Corcoran, Barbara     Annie's Monster
    Axe-Time, Sword-Time
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Intensive Care
Day, Sarah     Free Will
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Dickinson, Emily     I felt a cleaving in my mind
    Much madness is divinest sense
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     The Double: Two Versions
    The Idiot
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     The Case of Lady Sannox
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Duras, Marguerite     The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Dyer, Joyce     In a Tangled Wood
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Enquist, Per Olov     The Royal Physician's Visit
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Euripides,     Medea
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
Federspiel, J. F.     The Ballad of Typhoid Mary
Ferris, Joshua     The Unnamed
Findley, Timothy     Dreams
    Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Tender Is the Night
    Tender Is the Night
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
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Foucault, Michel     Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Fox, John     Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Frame, Janet     Janet Frame: Autobiography
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Fugard, Athol     A Lesson from Aloes
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.     Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Yellow Wallpaper
Ginsberg, Allen     Kaddish
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Green, Gerald     To Brooklyn with Love
Greenberg, Michael     Hurry Down Sunshine
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Haddon, Mark     A Spot of Bother
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harjo, Joy     The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Herbert, Mary Kennan     On the Couch
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hirshbein, Laura D.     American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hollinghurst, Alan     The Line of Beauty
Hollingshead, Greg     Spin Dry
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
Hughes, Ted     Fever
    The Tender Place
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ignatow, David     Sunday at the State Hospital
James, Henry     The Turn of the Screw
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
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Kafka, Franz     The Metamorphosis
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Keats, John     Ode on Melancholy
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
Kenyon, Jane     Having it Out with Melancholy
    Now Where
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Kirschner, Elizabeth     My Life as a Doll
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
Kristeva, Julia     Murder in Byzantium
Kushner, Tony     Angels in America
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Landolfi, Tomasso     Gogol's Wife
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lennox, Charlotte     The Female Quixote: Or, the Adventures of Arabella
Lesser, Rika     All We Need of Hell
Lessing, Doris     To Room Nineteen
Levine, Philip     The Poem of Chalk
Lieberman, Michael     Sojourn at Elmhurst
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
London, Jack     Told in the Drooling Ward
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Lorca, Federico Garcia     The House of Bernarda Alba
Lowell, Robert     Skunk Hour
Lowry, Lois     The Silent Boy
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Martin, Steve     The Pleasure of My Company
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Lord Mountdrago
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCullers, Carson     The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian     Enduring Love
McFarland, Dennis     A Face at the Window
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
McKay, Claude     The Lynching
Melville, Herman     Moby-Dick
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Millard, Candice     Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Miller, Andrew     Ingenious Pain
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Morris, Winifred     Secret Numbers
Morrison, Toni     The Bluest Eye
    Recitatif
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nazeer, Kamran     Send In The Idiots
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
North, Carol S.     Welcome Silence: My Triumph Over Schizophrenia
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Orr, Gregory     If There's a God . . .
Owen, Wilfred     Mental Cases
Ozick, Cynthia     The Shawl
Padilla, Ignacio     Amends in Halak-Proot
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Percy, Walker     The Last Gentleman
    The Moviegoer
    The Second Coming
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Picoult, Jodi     House Rules
Piercy, Marge     Out of Sight
    Woman on the Edge of Time
Pies, Ronald     Creeping Thyme
    Zimmerman's Tefillin
Plath, Sylvia     The Bell Jar
    The Wishing Box
Poe, Edgar Allan     The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    William Wilson
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Powers, Richard     The Echo Maker
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
Reade, Charles     Hard Cash
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Robinson, David J.     Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Miniver Cheevy
    Mr. Flood's Party
Roethke, Theodore     In a Dark Time
    Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Ruddick, Bruce     Poems
Sacks, Oliver     The Autist Artist
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Sansom, C. (Christopher) J. (John)     Revelation
Schramm, T., ed.     Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Self, Will     Great Apes
Selzer, Richard     Pipistrel
Sexton, Anne     You, Doctor Martin
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shaffer, Peter     Equus
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    King Lear
    Macbeth
    My love is as a fever, longing still
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     To Mary Shelley
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
    Prozac Diary
    Welcome to My Country
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
    Illness as Metaphor
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Gertrude     Three Lives
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Stephenson, Lynda     Dancing with Elvis
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Styron, William     Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Tischler, Victoria, ed.     Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Trollope, Anthony     He Knew He Was Right
Tsypkin, Leonid     Summer in Baden-Baden
Urquhart, Jane     Away
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Wells, Rebecca     Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Werlin, Nancy     Are You Alone on Purpose?
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)     The Second Tree from the Corner
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Wigfall, Clare     Safe
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     The Mental Hospital Garden
Winchester, Simon     The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
Yount, John     The Trapper's Last Shot