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John Gach Books, Inc. 10514 Marriottsville Road (Rear Building) PO Box 267 Randallstown, Maryland 21133 |
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John Gach Books, Inc. 10514 Marriottsville Road (Rear Building) PO Box 267 Randallstown, Maryland 21133 |
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One of the best books on first person accounts of mental illnes, with an annotated bibliography.
Contains Brigham's "Fright a Frequent Cause of Insanity, and Sometimes a Cure"; "Illustrations of Insanity Furnished by the Letters and Writings of the Insane"; report of the murder trial of John Johnson in Binghamton, NY; Kirkbride's "Description of the Pleasure Grounds and Farm of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane".
In addition to a first person account of depression occasioned by a head injury, contains, all by the editor, Amariah Brigham, "Insanity of Dean Swift, and his Hospital for the Insane"; "Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, - Her Care and Labors for the Insane"; "Incendiary Monomania - Pyromania"; Witchcraft and Insanity"; "Mount Hope Institution and the American Journal of Insanity".l for the Insane".
Contains S. G. Howe's "On Training and Educating Idiots"; G. Chandler's "Life of Dr. Woodward"; "Melancholia: Remarks by a Patient on His Own Recovery… communicated to Dr. Fonenden"; A. V. Williams' "Typho-Mania".
Contains A. O. Kellogg's "Considerations on the Reciprocal of the Physical Organization and Mental Manifestations"; Joseph Workman's (Superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto) "Cases of Insanity Illustrative of Pathology of General Paralyis"; J. H. Worthington's "Case of Prominence of the Eyeballs with Diseases of the Thyroid Gland and Heart"; Francis James Lynch's "Some Remarks on the Metastasis of Diseased Action to the Brain in Gout and Other Diseases"; "Insanity in the State of New York; "Monomania"; "Law Cases Bearing upon Insanity"; report of the 11th Annual meeting of AMSAII.
The book that began the mental hygiene movement and by far the most influential twentieth century first person account of mental illness in English.
Facsimile reprint of the original 1908 Longmans edition. The book that began the mental hygiene movement and by far the most influential twentieth century first person account of mental illness.
First-person account of Benson's bouts with depression subsequent to those recounted in his autobiographical 1904 House of Quiet.
Fictional account of John Rosen's direct psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients. Brand had co-written the screenplay for The Snake Pit.
First person account of an Australian schizophrenic.
Facsimile reprint of the 1733 first edition.
First person account of life in a large state mental hospital.
First person account by the Florida mental patient whose case established the legal rights of involuntarily held patients.
First-person account a la Mrs. Packard.
Diary of the author's mental breakdown & recovery.
Third and first person account of Flach's daughter's schizophrenia.
Freeman's account of her psychoanalysis.
Alvarez, page 340: "A man who probably went into a brief manic spell and wanted to spend all his savings on an insane speculation was committed by his friends. He maintained he was never insane."
First person account of the author's psychological breakdown resulting from her going off Valium cold turkey, as her therapist had advised.
First person account of a woman's relationship to her mother while growing up.
Artfully tells the story of Janet Gotkin's mental breakdown, awful hospitalizations, suicide attempt, and eventual spontaneous recovery after a five-day coma. Very much an indictment of her treatment by psychiatrists. The Gotkins founded Mental Patients Resistance.
First person account of manic depression.
First person account of agoraphobia.
First-person account of her own mental illness.
"An excellent book based on autobiographical material about three alcoholic women. One tells of her bad heredity. The second quickly went into a psychosis; she also had a terrible heredity. The third was very promiscuous with men; she was homosexual and possibly epileptic" [Alvarez, p. 352].
First person account by a psychiatrist of his experiences and cases.
First person account of a paranoid schizophrenic as narrated by Mrs. Kytle.
Collects and classifies first person descriptions of psychotic experience.
First-person account by an ex-schizophrenic counselor.
We would probably label Marrs today an obsessive neurotic. "A good description of a neurasthenic who travels about always looking for a cure" [Alvarez page 367].
South American first-person account of psychiatric hospitalization and treatment presented as a novel.
First person account of her depression.
An account of "Marion's" puerperal psychosis, 1965-1967, and her relapse, 1975-1976, presented through 110 color drawings made by "Marion" during her therapy, with later interpretation by her psychiatrist. The therapy, which took place in Oslo, was object-relations oriented psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
3rd person account of madness.
Account of a woman's mental breakdown and her husband's decision to care for her at home. Pseudonyumously published by an English writer.
No copies in OCLC, LC, or NLM. First person account of mental illness, written entirely from a subjective stream of consciousness point of view.
Grinstein 30166.
The most famous first person account of madness, the first German edition of which is a legendary rarity. Family legend has it that the family bought up and destroyed the edition — a belief corroborated by the book's rarity. For a vanity press book issued by a spiritist publisher at the author's own expense, Denkwürdigkeiten was taken with surprising seriousness by the psychiatric profession, inspiring about a dozen book reviews along with Freud's famous 1911 paper published in the Jahrbuch. Schreber, a "polyglot and highly educated judge, born and raised all his life in the Kingdom of Saxony, suffered from bipolar disorder and had three depressive episodes in his life: in 1884, 1893, and 1907, the last ending in his death. The second episode, the most famous, was marked by an interim phase of hallucinations and delusions containing many profound insights into human nature. In spite of the lack of adequate psychotherapy, drug, occupational and family treatment, hemmed in by a false diagnosis and by a declaration of mental incompetency, Schreber turned the impasse of his second eight-year-long hospitalization into a creative solution in the form a a literary-philosophical work of art, an immortal book, Memoirs of a Nervous Patient" (personal communication from Zvi Lothane, whose 1992 In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry is now the standard book on Schreber). "The book did not — as its author expected — bring about a revolution in the religious thinking of his fellow human beings. No one reading the countless fantastic details in the Memoirs — such as how Paul Schreber once swallowed the soul of his psychiatrist, how little men tried to pump out his spinal cord, or how he was surrounded by 'fleetingly-improvised-men' who dissolved into nothingness as soon as they had passed beyond his range of vision — no one reading all this can escape the thought that Paul Schreber was mad. Yet equally inescapable is the impression that what one is reading is the work of a mentally deranged man who describes what delusions he has experienced, with great precision, intelligence and integrity" (Israëls 1981 p. 12).
Grinstein 30166.
The most famous first person account of madness, the first German edition of which is a legendary rarity. Freud constructed his theory of paranoia from his analysis of Schreber's book (in his "Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" in Band 3 of the Jahrbuch, 1911).
Grinstein 30166. Reprint of the Dawson's 1955 edition with a substantial 48 page introduction by Samuel M. Weber (born 1940).
At the invitation of its superintendent, Slater had stayed at Umber Hospital in England to gather material for a film script. Based on the journals he kept while at Umber, Cure of Minds artfully describes the patients, psychiatrists, nurses, and maintenance staff.
First person account of her mental breakdown & recovery.
Third person account with many verbatim interviews of patients caught up in faddish, often abusive psychotherapies.
1st person account of schizophrenia.
Styron's first person account of his depression.
Account of growing up in a family with a schizophrenic brother & mother suffering from anxiety & depression.
First person account of recovery from mental illness.
First person account.
Fictionalized first person account of insanity by this native of Ferrara.
About two twin girls who refused to speak to adults and developed an elaborate fantasy life.
Fictionalized first person account of madness, subsequently made into a haunting movie.
An exposé of army and VA psychiatrists.
First person account of the author's involuntary incarceration in two mental hospitals, starting in 1942.
First-person account of her stay in the 1930s as a mental patient in an asylum in the South.
An account of a group home for the mentally ill, focusing on five residents in particular.