mental health

Teri Cheney, a former entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills, shares the story of her struggles with bipolar disorder, describing what she endured with mood swings, medications, and even shock treatments, before finally gaining control of her illness.

Examines the events surrounding Mary Lincoln's insanity case, based in part on the discovery in 2005 of twenty-five letters, some written by Mary from the asylum to which her son Robert had her committed in 1875, and presents evidence to support the author's theory that the president's wife suffered from bipolar disorder.

Actress Patty Duke recounts her experiences as a manic-depressive. Gloria Hockman reports on latest findings on the probable causes and treatments of the illness.

Authors examine manic depression as one of the key factors in a political pathology such as tyranny.

Memoir of Molly McCloskey about her search to discover what her oldest brother, Mike, was like before he succumbed to a severe case of paranoid schizophrenia.

Presents the private journal of Jennifer Hendricks, who lost her battle against anorexia at age twenty-five and illustrates her emotional struggles and the destructive conflicts within herself that ravaged her body.

Through her diary entries therapist Martha Manning tells how depression transformed her from a happy, healthy, and successful person to a suicidal sleepwalker and how electroconvulsive therapy helped her recover.

Patricia Van Tighem chronicles her recovery after she was attacked by a grizzly bear in 1983 and discusses how she healed both her physical and emotional wounds in the years after the attack.

Explores how differences in temperament between artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh created an explosive form of inspiration for both while the two men lived together for nine weeks in 1888.

On the t.p.: The woman who was known as Eve tells the story of her triumph over multiple personality disorder.