All Wingos share one heritage... shrimp fishing, poverty and the memory of a terrifying event - the source of Tom Wingo's self-hatred and his sister Savannah's despair. To save himself and Savannah, Tom confronts the past with the help of New York psychologist Susan Lowenstein. This work chronicles the family of Wingos of Colleton, South Carolina.

This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide.

Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression

From domestic abuse to political terror, new edition, with a new afterward by the author.

The exploits and excesses of three pill-popping showbiz heroines: Anne, the smalltown girl who captivates a millionaire, but falls for a cad; Jennifer, the Marilyn Monroe clone who possesses everything - except immortality; and Neely, ruthless Judy Garlandesque understudy-turned-superstar.