psychiatric hospitals

A thirteen-year-old daughter of a surgeon finds herself wrenched away from a comfortable lifestyle to a home on the grounds of a mental hospital, where her father has accepted a five year contract.

Contains the complete text of the novel about the disastrous power struggle between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution, with writings by the author, literary criticism, excerpts from analogous works, and other reviews and essays.

After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break.

After spending five months in treatment, Skey still doesn't know why she hurt herself, but when she meets another boy her own age who has many of the same problems, she begins to understand her own destructive behavior.

When seventeen-year-old Lauren begins receiving visions of girls her age, she learns that they have each mysteriously gone missing and wonders why she has been contacted by them. As she searches for more information, she descends down a path that will transform her life and reveal a shocking truth.

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

Speaking from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure that preceded the breaking scandal of her father's unethical business dealings.

Jessie, locked away in Pecan Place, struggles to hold onto her sanity, while Pietr, fighting to keep their relationship alive and aware that time is running out for his mother, makes a dangerous decision.

A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse. Includes line drawings by the author.

When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.