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Books & Videos on Mental Illness

While NAMI Minnesota has a wide array of information on mental illnesses and related issues represented in its resource center, video library, and educational materials, one of the best places to go for information is the award-winning national NAMI website, http://www.nami.org/.  View videos made by NAMI Minnesota, here.

Books in NAMI Minnesota's Library


Schizophrenia
Surviving Schizophrenia, 4th Edition – E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.  (Schizophrenia in understandable terms with practical suggestions for families)
When Someone You Love has a Mental Illness – Rachel Woods
The Day The Voices Stopped – Ken Steele & Claire Berman
The Voices of Robby Wilde – Elizabeth Kytle
Room for J - Daniel S. Hanson (Minnesota author)
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia – Kim T. Muesser, Susan Gingerich
The Eden Express – Mark Vonnegut

Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorder
Touched With Fire – Kay Redfield Jamison
An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
Surviving Manic Depression – E. Fuller Torrey
A Brilliant Madness – Patty Duke

Depression
What to Do When Someone You Love is Depressed – Mitch Golant
How You Can Survive When They're Depressed – Anne Sheffield
The Noonday Demon – Andrew Solomon
Out of the Darkened Room: When a Parent is Depressed – William Beardslee
The Depression Workbook – Mary Ellen Copeland
On The Edge of Darkness – Kathy Cronkite

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The OCD Workbook – Bruce Hyman & Cherry Pedrick
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: New Help for the Family – Herbert Gravitz
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Help for Children and Adolescents – Mitzi Waltz & James Claiborn
Brain Lock – Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Anxiety/Panic

The Peace of Mind Prescription – Charney & Nemeroff
Beyond Anxiety & Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide – Edmund J. Bourne
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – Edmund J. Bourne
No Need to Fear: Overcoming Panic Disorder – Koz Christopher

Dual Disorder/MICD
Lives at Risk: Understanding and Treating Young People with Dual Disorders – Hilary Ryglewicz & Bert Pepper
You Mean I Don’t  Have to Feel This Way? – Colette Dowling. New Help for depression, anxiety, and addiction

Family/Coping
How to Live With a Mentally Ill Person – Christine Adamec & John Wiley
Beloved Stranger – Mary Brust Heaney
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness – Rebecca Woolis. An essential resource--featuring 50 proven Quick Reference guides
When Someone you Love is Depressed – Laura Epstein Rosen & Xavier Francisco Amador

Borderline Personality Disorder
Stop Walking on Eggshells – Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger
Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified – Robert Freidel
Lost in the Mirror – Richard Moskovitz
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder – Gunderson & Hoffman
The Borderline Mother – Christine Ann Lawson

Recovery

Exuberance - Kay Redfield Jamison
Recovery in Mental Illness – Patrick Corrigan
Transforming Madness – Jay Neugeboren

Stigma
Don’t Call Me Nuts – Patrick Corrigan

Miscellaneous
I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help- Xavier Amador
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness - James Whitney Hicks
Lodge Magic – John K. Trepp (Minnesota author)
Regular or Decaf -- Andrew Gadtke (Minnesota Author)
Straight Talk about Your Mental Health  – James Morrison
Crazy:  A Father’s Search through America’s Mental Health Madness – Pete Earley  
The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness – David A Karp
The Invisible Plague (Discusses the rise of mental illness) – E. Fuller Torrey
Out of the Shadows: Confronting America’s mental illness crisis – E. Fuller Torrey
Night Falls Fast   (Suicide) – Kay Redfield Jamison
The Mad Among Us : A History of the Care – Gerald N. Grob

Children & Adolescents
The Explosive Child – Ross W. Greene
Treating the Explosive Child – Ross W. Green
The Bipolar Child  –  Demitri & Janice Poplos
The Childhood Depression Sourcebook – Jeffrey A Miller
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Stop Washing – Judith Rapport
Helping Your Depressed Teenager – Gerald Oster
When Nothing Matters Anymore –  Bev Cobain
Raising a Moody Child – Mary Fristad and Jill Goldberg Arnold

Booklets (from NAMI)
Parents and Teachers as Allies                                         
Recognizing Early-onset Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents (26 pages)
What Hurts/What Helps (24 pages)             

Videos in NAMI-MN's Library
Anxiety/Panic Disorders
Recognizing Panic Disorders
Social Anxiety Disorder
Understanding Panic Disorder

Bipolar Disorder
Breaking the Dark Horse
Call Me Anna
Chemical Imbalance: A Brief Review
Everyone Needs a Hand to Hold On To
Learning to Live with Bipolar Disorder
Tips, Resources, Strategies for Bipolar Mania
Dark Glasses and Kaleidoscopes
Manic Depression – Voices of an Illness

Commercial Films
Angel Baby
Through the Glass Darkly

Community Programs
With Open Arms

Depression
After the Tears, Teens Talk About Depression
Beyond the Darkness
Dead Blue: Depression
Depression – Treatment
Depression – Understanding
Depression – Relationships
Depression – Management
Depression at Time of Diagnosis
Elderly Parents with Depression
When Spouses Have Depression
Living with Depression and Manic Depression (Tape Cassette)
Eternal High (DVD)
Gray and Blue: Depression in Older People

Dual Diagnosis
Dual Diagnosis: An Integrated Model

ECT
ECT/Prime Time Review

Education and Information

Coping with Stigma: Conversation at the Carter Center
Recognition and Intervention
Straight Talk About Mental Illness: Teens Ask Questions
Supporting Achievement for Children with Disabilities
ADA and Public Schools: Access for All

Faith Communities
A Place to Come Back to

Families

Families Coping with Mental Illness
Mental Illness in the Family
My Brother’s Keeper
Silent No More: Families Speak Out About Mental Illness
To Have and to Hold
Uncertain
Family-to-Family Tribute
Depression: a Family Matter
Co-Training Effort: Families and Law Enforcement
      Community Encounter, Family Response, Mental Illness, Calling 911, Minority Concerns, Training the M.E.T.

Homelessness
West 47th Street
Homelessness

Housing and History
Asylum
Disordered States

Jails as Housing
Back to Bedlum
Prisons (MacNeil/Lehrer)

Law Enforcement Training
Mental Illnesses and Those who are Affected
Police Responses, Part 1 & 2
Police Training (AMI Western Mass.)
Suicide Prevention, Crisis Intervention Skills for Corrections’ Workers
Mental Health Court (Hennepin County)

Medications
Brian’s Story: TD and Clozaril
Clozaril: What to Expect
Zyprexa – Amy Crousore
What to Expect from Clozaril
Detection of Suspected Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Mental Illness
Physical Causes of Mental Illness
Making Assessment Accommodations

NAMI Meetings
Visionaries: How NAMI Began

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Sharing the Hope: A Parental Guide
The Touching Tree

Parenting

I Love You Like Crazy

Police Training
Co-Training for Families & Law Enforcement, in Community Education
Co-Training for Families & Law Enforcement, in Calling 911

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Life After Trauma

Public Policy
Access To Medication: Parity Issues

Recovery
Lionel Aldridge on Recovery
Recovering from Mental Illness (The Bonnie Tapes)
In Our Own Voice

Research
Research Takes Brains
Which Brain Do You Want?

Schizophrenia
Annick Holister Story
Breaking Point  (48 Hours)
Broken Minds (Frontline)
Critical Connections (Schizophrenia Awareness)
Cutting Edge Medical Report
Dateline: Deadly Encounter Pt. 1
Dateline: Deadly Encounter Pt. 2
I’m Still Here – The Truth
Investigative Reports: The Shattered Mind
Killer at Thurston High
Kip Kinkle Story
Living With Schizophrenia (Pifzer)
My Mission for Margaret
Schizophrenia – Margaret Ray
Science of Schizophrenia – Milestone to Millennium
Schizophrenia – Voices of an Illness
A Guide for Family and Friends of people living with Schizophrenia
A Guide for People living with Schizophrenia
A Guide for the Treatment Team
Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Treatment
Preventing Relapse in Schizophrenia
Understanding and Communicating with a Person who is Hallucinating
The Challenges of Schizophrenia
Emerging from the Darkness of Schizophrenia
Celebrating Two Decades of Progress (31 July 2005)

Second Annual Research Dinner
Advances in Somatice
Changes in Mental Health Law
Characterization, Tx of the Schizophrenia Prodome
Imaging Innovations, Brain Research in Schizophenia
Neurodevelopment Models: Etiology of Schizophrenia

Siblings
My Sister is Mentally Ill (The Bonnie Tapes)