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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Coming from an unbalanced life with a mother who abandons the family, a father with mental illness, and a brother who fluctuates from fury to tenderness, Summer remembers one piece of information from high school, that your DNA defines who you are and forever ties you to your relatives. Caught in the conflict of escape and hope, she begins to question the role of genetics and whether she is destined to live a life of despair.
6) Georgie
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Georgie, struggling with rage and grief, beings to find his way back to sanity with the help of a sympathetic fellow resident, a patient teacher, and other staff at a school for emotionally disturbed teenagers.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers" "One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in History" "One of the New York Post's Favorite Books of 2015" "One of Paste Magazine's 30 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015" Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the...
Series
Institute briefs volume 3, issue 2
Publisher
Family and Youth Institute, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension and College of Applied Sciences
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
16) Mad in America
Author
Publisher
Perseus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane." and what we value most about the human mind.
"In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness. Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter—a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can’t ignore her growing suspicions. Robert is operating on patients...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On June 22, 1999, the United States Supreme Court found in Olmstead v. L.C. that unnecessary segregation of individuals with disabilities in institutions is a form of discrimination based on disability. Colorado has implemented a number of planning efforts that were designed to address the Olmstead decision. While not implemented, these plans provided substantive guidance to state efforts which resulted in a number of important achievements. These...
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