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Wire mothers

Harry Harlow and the science of love
2007
A nonfiction graphic novel about psychologist Harry Harlow's famous experiments that demonstrated how rhesus monkeys preferred the soft, cloth-stuffed animal mother over wire surrogates; and how scientists wouldn't admit the word love into their clinical language.

Alien abductions

This title explores the mysteries of alien abductions and the tools and technology behind researching them to debate the question of whether aliens have ever visited Earth.

Because I come from a crazy family

the making of a psychiatrist
2018
An autobiography of Edward M. Hallowell who discusses the experiences that lead him to become a psychiatrist in the mental health profession.
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The night bird

2017
Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences, but when a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco, Detective Easton must look for connections everywhere, including dangerous and personal locations.
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Every fifteen minutes

Dr. Eric Parrish, newly a single father, is trying to hold his personal and professional lives together. His latest patient is a teenaged boy who is disturbingly obsessed with a girl. Before Eric can report the boy to the authorities, potentially breaking doctor-patient confidentiality, a sociopath strikes, seemingly targeting Eric, his practice, and his family. Eric will have to use his knowledge of psychology to stop this murderer before he can enact his final plan.

Freud

a very short introduction
2001
An introduction to the life and theories of early-twentieth-century psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, discussing his childhood, his marriage and family, his relationships with other pioneers in psychology, his work in such areas as infantile sexual development and the Oedipus complex, and his impact on Western thought.

Divided minds

twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia
2005
Identical twins Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn Spiro share the story of Pamela's struggles with schizophrenia, and describe how her illness, breakdowns, and recovery changed the dynamics of their relationship.

Songs from the black chair

a memoir of mental interiors
2005
Presents a first-hand, narrative, account of the author's experiences as a mental health professional at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, recounting his own struggles with childhood phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder, and describing feelings of loss associated with the suicide of his best friend, Henry.

Tender is the night

2010
The tragic and haunting story of Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist whose career is thwarted and his genius numbed through marriage to the exquisite and wealthy Nicole Warren.

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