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▲Especially recommended
 
Schizophrenia

▲▲ E. Fuller Torrey, Surviving schizophrenia: a manual for consumers, families, and providers, New York: Harper Row, 2000.

▲ Anne Deveson, Tell me I’m here, London: Penguin Books, 1991 (out of print; available in libraries only).

Maryellen Walsh, Schizophrenia: straight talk for family and friends, New York: Morrow, 1985.

Patricia Backlar, The family face of schizophrenia, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994.

Kevyn Noble and Sandy Lenz, Children with schizophrenia, Edmonton: Glenrose Hospital Educational Services, 1995.

Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich, Coping with schizophrenia: a guide for families, Oakland: New Harbinger, 1992.

Richard Keefe and Philip Harvey, Understanding schizophrenia: a guide to the new research on causes and treatment, Toronto: The Free Press, Macmillan, 1994.

Bipolar and depression

▲E. Fuller Torrey, Surviving manic depression: a manual on bipolar disorder, New York, Harper Row, 2000.

▲Nathan Kline, From sad to glad, New York: Putnam, 1974.

▲Ronald Fieve, Moodswing, New York: W. Morrow, 1989.

Julia Nunes and Scott Simmie, Beyond crazy: journeys through mental illness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002.

 
General

▲Rael Jean Isaac and Virginia C. Armat, Madness in the streets: how psychiatry and the law abandoned the mentally ill, New York: The Free Press, 1990.

▲Nancy Andreasen, The broken brain: the biological revolution in psychiatry, New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

Rebecca Woolis, When someone you love has a mental illness, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee, 1992.

Xavier Amador, I am not sick, I don’t need help!, Peconic, NY: Vida Press, 2000.

Gwen Howe, Serious mental illness, a family affair, 1997.

E. Fuller Torrey, Out of the shadows: confronting America’s mental illness crisis, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

E. Fuller Torrey, Nowhere to go: the tragic odyssey of the homeless mentally ill, New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Julia Nunes and Scott Simmie, The last taboo: survival guide to mental health care in Canada, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001.

Christine Adamec, How to live with a mentally ill person: a handbook of day-to-day strategies, John Wiley & Sons. 1996.

Virginia Lafond, Grieving mental illness: a guide for patients and their caregivers, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Diane Marsh and Rex Dickens, Troubled journey: coming to terms with mental illness of a sibiling or parent, Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., 1997.

Sherry Dinner, Nothing to be ashamed of: growing up with mental illness in your family, New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1989. (For younger readers. Recommended age level 9-12.)

Victoria Secunda, When madness comes home: help and hope for children, siblings and partners, Disney Press, 1998.

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