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.

Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.

A comprehensive guide offering straight talk that can help people with bipolar disorder take charge of their illness and reclaim their lives.

A searing, unflinching and deeply moving account of Marya Hornbacher's personal experience of living with bipolar disorder.

Like depression and other serious illnesses, bipolar disorder also affects spouses, partners, family members, friends and coworkers. This book reveals some of the causes and consequences of bipolar disorder. It covers some crisis survival strategies and describe ways that friends and family members can support loved ones who have the disease.

Dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better understanding of the suicidal mind and a chance to recognize the person at risk. This book offers an analysis that helps us to comprehend the profound and disturbing sense of loss created in those left behind.

One summer evening the author's daughter Sally was brought home by the police after rushing into a busy road in Greenwich Village, convinced she could halt the oncoming traffic. This book offers an account of the descent into madness of the author's teenage daughter.

Living with bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge. Based on proven cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, this book offers a variety of tools that enable readers to recognize the early warning signs of an oncoming episode, develop plans for withstanding the seductive pull of manic episodes, and escape the paralysis of depression.

Discusses options for diagnosis and treatment on bipolar disorder's genetic components. This book provides treatment options, including the advantages, disadvantages, and side effects of various drug therapies. It also describes what it is like to live with bipolar disorder and discusses how lifestyle changes can improve quality of life.

Now in paperback, this is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live and a race against death. From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen he was dead. Danielle Steel tells her story of the son she lost to manic depression.

People with 'soft' bipolar disorder, also known as Bipolar II, have frequent episodes of depression along with anxiety, irritability, and restless sleep. This guide helps you discover if you or someone you love may have a nonmanic form of bipolar disorder and shows how to work with doctors to safely treat the condition.

Originally published in 1997, a guide to mood and emotion disorders, written by the Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. It discusses topics such as mental illness, depression and mania, using real life case studies to demonstrate.

An uproarious look at bestselling author Carrie Fisher's Hollywood hangover, adapted from the sold-out one-woman show of the same name which the Los Angeles Times called a Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes .

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into the water to save a man from drowning he opens a chapter from his past. The drowning man was Danny Miller, who Tom helped imprison for killing an old woman as a ten-year-old boy.

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

Tells the story of a seventeen-year-old dropout who has been kicked out of his fourth school. This novel dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression.