mental illness

Examines the components, functions, and disorders of the nervous system.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of American playwright, Tennessee Williams.

Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions about, Mexico, also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Selections by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens include complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations.

Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.

Offers an overview of schizophrenia, discussing the disorder's symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment options, and impact on the lives of patients and their loved ones.

Twenty-four articles present differing viewpoints on aspects of mental illness, including the extent of the problem in the U.S., the use of drugs as treatment, alternative treatments, and society's responses to the mentally ill.

When her alcoholic mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life.

Selections from magazine articles, speeches, and other sources examining the issue of mental illness in the United States.

A mentally ill teenager who rides the "short bus" to school investigates the sudden disappearance of his best friend.

A boy suffering from schizophreniform disorder falls into a love triangle with a girl in his junior high class--and a girl in his head.