Obsession


Art Film Literature


Art


Bacon, Francis     Painting
Gauguin, Paul     Self-Portrait with Halo
    Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau)
    Words of the Devil (Parau na te Varua ino)
Goya, Francisco     El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (the sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
Munch, Edvard     The Dance of Life
    Puberty
Picasso, Pablo     The Tragedy
Van Gogh, Vincent     Self-Portrait
    Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear


Film


    American Beauty
    Arrowsmith
    The Belly of an Architect
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Snatcher
    Brain Candy
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    Docteur Petiot
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    The House of God
    In My Skin (Dans ma Peau)
    The Kingdom
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Magnificent Obsession
    Memento
    Monsoon Wedding
    Murderball
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    The Pillow Book
    Rain Man
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    Ridicule
    Road to Wellville
    The Secret Garden
    Seraphine
    Spellbound
    Sylvia
    Talk to Her (hable con ella)
    Thin
    Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Abse, Dannie     The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
Alden, Paulette Bates     Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility
Andahazi, Federico     The Anatomist
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
Baer, William     The Unfortunates
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Balzac, Honore de     Cousin Bette
    The Wild Ass's Skin (Le Peau de Chagrin)
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barnes, Djuna     Nightwood
Bellow, Saul     The Victim
Berg, Elizabeth     Talk Before Sleep
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Bishop, Elizabeth     Visits to St. Elizabeths
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Borges, Jorge Luis     Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brook, T., et.al., eds.     Death by a Thousand Cuts
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Morphine
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Capek, Karel     Vertigo
Carr, Caleb     The Alienist
Carver, Raymond     Fat
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Chekhov, Anton P.     Ariadne
    An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Black Monk
    Excellent People
    The Kiss
    The Man in a Case
    Mire
    Perpetuum Mobile
    The Shooting Party
    Volodya
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Connell, Evan S.     The Anatomy Lesson
Connor, Ralph     The Doctor: A Tale of the Rockies
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Finches
Cousins, Norman     Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Crane, Stephen     The Monster
Csáth, Géza     The Surgeon
Cule, John     The Wreath on the Crown: The Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl
Dahl, Roald     The Sound Machine
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles     Bleak House
    A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Our Mutual Friend
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Doerr, Anthony     The Shell Collector
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     The Double: Two Versions
    Notes from Underground
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Duncker, Patricia     James Miranda Barry
Dunn, Katherine     Geek Love
Duras, Marguerite     The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Emling, Shelley     The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Enquist, Per Olov     The Royal Physician's Visit
Euripides,     Medea
Faber, Michel     Under the Skin
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
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., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
    Love in the Time of Cholera
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
George, Sara     The Beekeeper's Pupil
Ghosh, Amitav     The Calcutta Chromosome
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von     The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goldberg, Marshall     The Anatomy Lesson
Goldsmith, Barbara     Obsessive Genius. The Inner World of Marie Curie
Goldsworthy, Peter     Wish
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Gray, Andrew     Heart of the Land
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Guista, Michael     The Year of Release
Hadas, Pamela White     To Make a Dragon Move: From the Diary of an Anorexic
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    A Spot of Bother
Hanauer, Cathi     My Sister's Bones
Harrison, Kathryn     Saint Catherine of Siena: Catherine Means Pure
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hawthorne, Nathaniel     The Birthmark
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hollingshead, Greg     Spin Dry
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Houston, Pam     Out of Habit, I Start Apologizing
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Iagnemma, Karl     Children of Hunger
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
James, Henry     The Figure in the Carpet
    The Turn of the Screw
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jamison, Kay Redfield     Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jin, Ha     Waiting
Kafka, Franz     A Hunger Artist
    In the Penal Colony
Karlawish, Jason     Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
Kneale, Matthew     Sweet Thames
Koch, Christopher     The Doubleman
    The Year of Living Dangerously
Kristeva, Julia     Murder in Byzantium
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Landolfi, Tomasso     Gogol's Wife
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lennox, Charlotte     The Female Quixote: Or, the Adventures of Arabella
Levenkron, Steven     The Best Little Girl in the World
    The Luckiest Girl in the World
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
    Homework
Lodge, David     The British Museum Is Falling Down
    Therapy
Lorca, Federico Garcia     The House of Bernarda Alba
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
    Doctor Faustus
    The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
    Tristan
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Martin, Steve     The Pleasure of My Company
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
Maupassant, Guy de     An Old Man
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCullers, Carson     The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McEwan, Ian     Enduring Love
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
    Dr. Haggard's Disease
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Millhauser, Steven     The Wizard of West Orange
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Connor, Flannery     Good Country People
    Greenleaf
    A Late Encounter With the Enemy
Oatley, Keith     A Natural History: A Novel
Osteen, M., ed.     Autism and Representation
Ozick, Cynthia     The Shawl
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     An Instance of the Fingerpost
Penfield, Wilder Graves     The Torch
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Picoult, Jodi     House Rules
Plath, Sylvia     The Wishing Box
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Imp of the Perverse
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    William Wilson
Prince-Hughes, Dawn     Songs of the Gorilla Nation
Richman, Jan     Tourette's Journey
Robinson, David J.     Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sacks, Oliver     An Anthropologist on Mars
Sansom, C. (Christopher) J. (John)     Revelation
Schnitzler, Arthur     Dream Story
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Referred Pain
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Sedaris, David     A Plague of Tics
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Fetishes
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
    Whither Thou Goest
Shaffer, Peter     Equus
Shakespeare, William     King Lear
    Macbeth
    My love is as a fever, longing still
    Othello
Shawn, Allen     Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft     Frankenstein
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Showalter, Elaine     Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Skloot, Floyd     A World of Light
Slater, Lauren     Prozac Diary
Slaughter, Frank G.     Doctors' Wives
Smith, Dinitia     The Illusionist
Sod, Ted     Satan and Simon DeSoto
Soderberg, Hjalmar     Doctor Glas
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Trollope, Anthony     The Fixed Period
    He Knew He Was Right
Tsypkin, Leonid     Summer in Baden-Baden
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Vowell, Sarah     Assassination Vacation
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Weiner, Jonathan     His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wetherell, W. D.     Chekhov's Sister
Wigfall, Clare     Safe
Williams, William Carlos     so much depends
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wisenberg, S. (Sandi) L.     Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Yalom, Irvin     Lying on the Couch
    When Nietzsche Wept
Zola, Emile     Therese Raquin