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1	Impulse more books like this by Ellen Hopkins add to wishlist From the author of the acclaimed "Crank" comes a gut-wrenching story of teens in crisis. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act of desperation--suicide. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $6.02! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Woman on the edge of time more books like this by Marge Piercy add to wishlist Consuelo Camacho Ramos, hospitalized after killing her lover, has been released, but her prospects look bleak. She receives telepathic visits from a genderless individual from the year 2137, who introduces her to a utopian world. Considered mad, she is returned to Bellevue, where she finds the strength to fight her captors and win. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	It's Kind of a Funny Story more books like this by Ned Vizzini add to wishlist The author of "Be More Chill" takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, the despair, and even the hilarity of depression. Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax Books see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cut more books like this by Patricia McCormick add to wishlist Devastated by the fact that her brother nearly died while under her care, a teenager named Callie begins cutting herself to deal with her pain. Now in a psychiatric hospital, Callie refuses to speak but senses a kinship with the other female patients in her ward. When a serious cutting incident frightens her, Callie begins to seek the help she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates more books like this by Erving Goffman add to wishlist Drawing on a year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington , D.C., Asylums is an analyssis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds such as prisons, mental-hospitals, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monasteries, and nursing homes--where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave ... see all copies from $2.57! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Asylum more books like this by Patrick McGrath add to wishlist As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mount Misery more books like this by Samuel Shem, M.D. add to wishlist A novelist and psychiatrist writes a sequel to his acclaimed THE HOUSE OF GOD. In this novel, a doctor in psychiatric training at a famous hospital encounters a mad collection of patients--and doctors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Suicide Notes more books like this by Michael Thomas Ford add to wishlist In his witty breakout novel for teens, Ford delivers a poignant and darkly humorous story about life and the pursuit of happiness. After 15-year-old Jeff wakes up in a hospital psychiatric ward, he's a little fuzzy on how he got there. One thing's for sure--he doesn't belong there. see all copies from $9.74! new only from $10.17! \| SVS
9	Death in the Peerless Pool more books like this by Deryn Lake add to wishlist After the discovery of a body in a popular swimming bath, the Peerless Pool, 18th-century apothecary John Rawlings and magistrate Blind Beak find themselves mixed up in another adventure. Who is the mysterious Hannah and could her murder be connected to the disappearance of two children, long ago? see all copies from $2.38! new only from $11.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest: A Pauline Sokol Mystery more books like this by Lori Avocato add to wishlist When sexy nurse-turned-investigator Pauline Sokol is mistakenly committed to a mental institution, she finds herself stuck in the middle of a bizarre murder investigation and on the run from a killer who's roaming among the patients. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Blue / Orange more books like this by Joe Penhall add to wishlist In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000 and transferred ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $7.52! \| SVS
12 view cover	Twice Dying more books like this by Neil McMahon add to wishlist Outside San Francisco, several violent sociopaths have been released back into society. When they start disappearing, a female psychologist sets off on a search for an answers and gets lured into a macabre game with a brilliant psychopath. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Spider Light more books like this by Sarah Rayne add to wishlist "The dangerous thing about spider light is that it hides things - things you never knew existed. But once you have seen those things, you can never afterwards forget them ..." The sleepy market town of Amberwood seems to offer peace and anonymity after a shattering and all-too-public tragedy in Antonia Weston's past. But as she struggles to re ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Leros more books like this by Alex Majoli, Paul Fryer add to wishlist Essays by Maurizio Constantino, Franco Rotelli and Laura Facchi. see all copies from $24.89! new only from $26.24!
15	Violence Risk & Threat Assessment: A Practical Guide for Mental Health & Criminal Justice Professionals more books like this by J Reid Meloy add to wishlist see all copies from $49.91! new only from $49.91!
16 view cover	Dracula: Book One more books like this by Paul Witcover add to wishlist Dr. Seward's Sanitorium was supposed to be a place of healing, a refuge for the mentally ill, where they could come to heal, recover from the traumas of their life. That was before the undead creature known as Count Dracula descended upon them, spreading pestilence and death wherever he walked. The monster was eventually destroyed, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Bedlam more books like this by Greg Hollingshead add to wishlist ""An extraordinary novel of three people caught up in the turmoil of the late eighteenth century, their lives intertwined in an age of war and revolution"""" "Bedlam"'s eighteenth-century London is a city teetering between darkness and light, struggling to find its way to a more just and humane future. But in its darkest corners, where noblemen, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Scream Queens of the Dead Sea more books like this by Gilad Elbom add to wishlist When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental hospital in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a small group of heavily medicated zombies? But as the human inventory inside the insane asylum begins to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Framed in Fire more books like this by David Patneaude add to wishlist Peter's stepfather, Buck, holds an unexplained grudge against Peter, and convinces doctors to commit Peter to a psychiatric hospital for hyperactivity. This mix of fast-paced action, drama, and family conflict is mixed with a paranormal element. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
20 view cover	Get Well Soon more books like this by Julie Halpern add to wishlist Drawing from her own experiences in a mental hospital as a teen, Halpern delivers a brave--and brazen--novel that finds humor in the unlikeliest of places. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.03! \| SVS
21 view cover	A Question of Madness: Repression by Psychiatry in the Soviet Union more books like this by Zhores A Medvedev, Roy A Medvedev add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.97! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Countertransference Enactment more books like this by Richard Shur add to wishlist Describes how commonly accepted hospital procedures and structures support potentially injurious forms of countertransference enactment. Because they help to disguise, ward off, or discharge tensions, within the staff, countertransference structures play a crucial role in hospitals' equilibrium. see all copies from $2.37! new only from $19.76! \| first editions
23 view cover	Seclusion Room more books like this by Fredric J Neuman add to wishlist Abe Redden was very surprised when he found Seymour Ratner dead in the seclusion room. It was true that at one point or another almost everyone at Four Elms, a private psychiatric hospital, had expressed a desire to throttle Seymour. He was driving everyone craziereven Redden, his psychiatrist. And Seymour was always claiming that someone was out ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness more books like this by Greg Hollingshead add to wishlist An International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee A Toronto "Globe and Mail" Best Book of the Year Conspiracies, plots, and paranoia are sweeping through London in the last days of the eighteenth century, and James Tilly Matthews has been caught under false pretenses and locked up in the city's vast, crumbling asylum. As his wife, Margaret, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.66! \| SVS
25	A question of madness more books like this by Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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