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The girl in the castle / by Patterson, James,1947-; Raymond, Emily,1972-;
"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--Provided by publisher.Ages 14 and up.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Mental illness; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychic trauma; Time travel;
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The patient / by DeWitt, Jasper,author.;
"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide. Desperate and fearful, the hospital's directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe on the outside world. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this mystery patient and finally cure him. But from his first encounter with the mystery patient, things spiral out of control and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew. Fans of Sarah Pinborough's Behind Her Eyes and Paul Tremblay's The Cabin at the End of the World will be riveted by Jasper DeWitt's astonishing debut"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Psychiatrists; Dangerously mentally ill; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Stella Maris / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.;
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Mental illness; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospitals; Young women;
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Stella Maris [sound recording] / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Julia Whelan and Edoardo Ballerini."The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Mental illness; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospitals; Young women;
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Stone mothers / by Kelly, Erin,1976-author.;
Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is, until her husband buys a flat in its newly renovated interior so that she can be close enough to help her mother, and Marianne can't tell him why the place fills her with such dread, she can't risk destroying the careful life she's built.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Family secrets; Psychiatric hospitals; Sick parents; Teachers; Politicians; Mentally ill;
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Mr. Nobody : a novel / by Steadman, Catherine,author.;
"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient in a small town deep in the English countryside. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she's been waiting for, and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same town fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then. Places aren't haunted...people are. But now something--or someone--is calling her back. And the more time she spends with her patient, the more alarmed she becomes that he knows the one thing about her that nobody is supposed to know."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Women psychiatrists; Psychiatric hospitals; Neuropsychiatry; Memory disorders; Amnesiacs; Homecoming; Secrecy;
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Stella Maris [text (large print)] / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.;
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large type books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Grief; Mental illness; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospitals; Schizophrenics; Women doctoral students; Young women;
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The madwomen of Paris : a novel / by Epstein, Jennifer Cody,author.;
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival would upend the already chaotic order of things at the Salpêtrière-not to mention change the course of my own life there." When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière she is covered in blood and badly bruised. Suffering from near-complete amnesia, she is diagnosed with what the Paris papers are calling "the epidemic of the age": hysteria. It is a disease so baffling and widespread that Doctor Jean-Martine Charcot, the asylum's famous director, devotes many of his popular public lectures to the malady. To Charcot's delight, Josephine also proves extraordinarily susceptible to hypnosis, the tool he uses to unlock hysteria's myriad (and often sensational) symptoms. Soon Charcot is regularly featuring Josephine on his stage, entrancing the young woman into fantastical acts and hallucinatory fits before enraptured audiences and eager newsmen-many of whom feature her on their paper's front pages. For Laure, a lonely asylum attendant assigned to Josephine's care, Charcot's diagnosis seems a godsend. A former hysteric herself, she knows better than most that life in the Salpêtrière's Hysteria Ward is far easier than in its dreaded Lunacy division, from which few inmates ever return. But as Josephine's fame as Charcot's "star hysteric" grows, her memory starts to return-and with it, images of a horrific crime she believes she's committed. Haunted by these visions, and helplessly trapped in Charcot's hypnotic web, she starts spiraling into actual insanity. Desperate to save the girl she has grown to love, Laure plots their escape from the Salpêtrière and its doctors. First, though, she must confirm whether Joséphine is actually a madwoman, soon to be consigned to the Salpêtrière's brutal Lunacy Ward-or a murderer, destined for the guillotine. Both are dark possibilities-but not nearly as dark as what Laure will unearth when she sets out to discover the truth"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893; Salpêtrière (Hospital); Hysteria; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Rabbit hole / by Billingham, Mark,author.;
Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So when one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice feels personally compelled to launch an investigation from within the ward. Soon, she becomes convinced that she has identified the killer and that she can catch them. Ignored by the police, she must gather proof on her own, relying on the few contacts she has on the outside that still take her calls. But when her prime suspect becomes the second victim, Alice's life begins to unravel as she realizes that she cannot trust anyone in the ward, least of all herself. Having lost her conviction and with her investigative confidence shattered, she comes dangerously close to a psychological point of no return.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Drug addiction; Murder; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychiatric hospitals; Women detectives;
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The girl behind the gates / by Davies, Brenda,author.;
"1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora, heavily institutionalised and still living in the hospital more than forty years after her incarceration, she knows that she must be the one to help Nora rediscover what it is to live. But as she works to help Nora overcome her past, Janet realises she must finally face her own."--Publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Life change events; Physician and patient; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatrists; Self-realization in women; Teenage girls;
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