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Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children

10 best books like Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children (Paul Raeburn): Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Night Navigation, Get It Done When You're Depressed, On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression, In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America, The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery, Love, Sara, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind, The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder

Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
AuthorPaul R. Linde
ISBN0071407995
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.

An...
Night Navigation
AuthorGinnah Howard
ISBN0151014329
Night Navigation opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del’s thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son needs a ride, but she’s afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed.

Through the four seasons,...
Get It Done When You're Depressed
AuthorJulie A. Fast
ISBN1592577067
Shake the blues away.

Everyone knows that depression can lead to guilt, sadness, frustration, and in the case of 15-20% of people with depression, suicide. Because we live in a culture that rewards (and often worships) productivity, when a depressed person can't meet the expectations of...
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
AuthorKathy Cronkite
ISBN0385314264
"I was ashamed.  It was a confession of weakness.  For years, depression meant the crazy house.  As I look back at it, [my shame] just seems damned foolishness, which is one reason I talk about it now."
--Mike Wallace

"Toward the end I couldn't get up. I just physically couldn't."
--Kitty...
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
AuthorLaurie Edwards
ISBN0802718019
Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic...
The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind
AuthorCheryl Paradis
ISBN0806531053
The defendant told the jury that he did not kill girlfriend. He "did," however, admit to dismembering her, boiling her bones, and hiding them in the Port Authority locker." At the heart of countless crimes lies the mystery of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the...
Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
AuthorGail Griffith
ISBN0060598662
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
Love, Sara
AuthorMary Beth Lundgren
ISBN0805067973
"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
AuthorEdwin S. Shneidman
ISBN0195172736
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page...
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder
AuthorDemitri Papolos
ISBN0767922972
This book is clearly a polemic. The husband-wife Papalos pair have definitely contributed to the massive increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children in the past 15yrs due to their assertion that a good percentage of children have this disorder (you can tell because they are hyper sometimes,...
Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness
AuthorTamar E. Chansky
ISBN0738211850
A leading clinical expert in the fields of child cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders, Dr. Tamar Chansky frequently counsels children (and their parents) whose negative thinking creates chronic or occasional emotional hurdles and impedes optimism, flexibility, and happiness. Now,...
Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence
AuthorJane M. Healy
ISBN0385469306
Ryan and Lincoln's guitar teacher recommended this. He implied that it would convince me it was important to start music lessons at a very young age (3 or 4). It did the opposite. Yes, there is an amazing amount of connections and growth happening, but these happen without structured learning. Basically...
Twins: Dead Ringers
AuthorBari Wood
ISBN0595179274
Twins is a spellbinding novel of the bizarre lives and shocking deaths of twin doctors—bound together by more than brotherly love, damned together to a private hell of unspeakable obsessions. Made into the motion picture Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg..
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
AuthorKurt Snyder
ISBN0195311221
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
AuthorMary Beth Pfeiffer
ISBN0786717459
Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently punished again for behavior that is...
The Day the Voices Stopped
AuthorKen Steele
ISBN0465082270
For thirty-two years Ken Steele lived with the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia, tortured by inner voices commanding him to kill himself, ravaged by the delusions of paranoia, barely surviving on the ragged edges of society. In this inspiring story, Steele tells the story of his hard-won recovery...
A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
AuthorPeter C. Whybrow
"A compassionate exploration of depression and manic-depression."
-- Forecast


"The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating,...
Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope
AuthorJulie Hersh
Awarded the Mental Health America Ruth Altschuler Community Advocate Prism Award and selected as one of the 2010 Distinguished Women by Northwood University, Julie Hersh is an outspoken advocate for mental health. "Despite medical advances," Julie says, "too many people die by suicide because...
The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, and Struggling with Depression
AuthorTracy Thompson
ISBN0060843799
An award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, Tracy Thompson was thirty-four when she was hospitalized and put on suicide watch during a major depressive episode. This event, the culmination of more than twenty years of silent suffering, became the point of departure for an in-depth, groundbreaking...
Out of the Blue
AuthorJan Wong
ISBN0385667248
Jan Wong tells her story about her spiral into a major depression. She delves into her clinical depression and what it did to her and her family and she also tells about how her employer and their insurance company denied her benefits and denied her dignity while she was sick. She names names and tells it...
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach
AuthorVincent J. Monastra
ISBN1591471826
Kids with ADHD need to be loved and shown how to become successful adults. Unfortunately, their lack of attention and restlessness often get in the way. Parents of these kids try so hard to stay connected and remain patient in the face of daily frustration. However, it is an incredible challenge to remain...
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
AuthorLewis Wolpert
ISBN0684870584
Lewis Wolpert had it all -- a successful scientific career and a happy home life -- when his struggles with clinical depression began. Although he had often dealt with the blues, he had never been seriously depressed before the illness took over his life. Overwhelmed, he was no longer able to think properly,...
Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
AuthorJames S. Gordon
ISBN1594201668
A groundbreaking, inspiring, and practical guide to healing depression without the use of antidepressants, from world-renowned, Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon

Each year, as many as twenty million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. Tens of millions...
The Gift Of ADHD: How To Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths
AuthorLara Honos-Webb
ISBN1572243899
I know some of my friends were waiting to hear my opinion on this book. Really there were some good moments; things that reminded me that above all else, loving my son unconditionally is the most important thing, and being sure he knows it. But I had to take a break from this book -- like a few months break --...
Listening to Prozac
AuthorPeter D. Kramer
ISBN0140266712
Since it was introduced in 1987, Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac—a medication, or a mental steroid? A cure for depression, or a drug that changes personality? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory,...
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