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From the earliest efforts to segregate the "mad" in society, to the wily World War II-era social engineers who twisted Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory to fit a much darker agenda, to the follies of the antipsychiatry movement (starring L. Ron Hubbard and his gifted, insanity-denying compatriot Thomas Szasz), we've struggled to deal with mental health care for generations. And it all leads to the current landscape, in which too many families...
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"Edgar–winner Cook examines the slow collapse of a prominent Southern family in this magnificent tale of suspense." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father's Delta estate, Great Oaks, to start what he considers a noble act: teaching at the local high school. Leading a class discussion on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Italiano
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Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the mascabre, based on Tolstoy's story The Wurdulak , itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. The nameless mentally ill man (Garko) is found wandering in the woods, his mind lost in fever dreams of gruesome, sexual imagery. After admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the man flashes back to his nightmarish encounter with a backwoods family whose dynasty...
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Women's Murder Club volume 6
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When an unthinkable tragedy leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club in critical condition, the others must fight to keep a deranged man locked away. Meanwhile, a series of ransomless child kidnappings rocks the city and confounds law enforcement.
When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which...
66) The insane train
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Railroad security worker Hook Runyon and a crew of damaged World War II veterans find themselves facing murder when they escort a group of mental patients and their doctors to a new home after the Baldwin Insane Asylum burns to the ground.
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Artfully imagined, intricately detailed, eerily poignant: these are the outstanding features of Carol Goodman’s literary thrillers. She is part novelist, part craftsman—and The Drowning Tree is her newest masterpiece.
Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose...
Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose...
70) Unsane
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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English
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Still scarred from the trauma of being terrorized by a stalker, Sawyer Valentini receives treatments at the Highland Creek Behavioral Center. However, shortly after she unwittingly commits herself to the mental institution and is unable to leave, she catches sight of a facility staffer who, she is convinced, is actually her stalker. But is he real or a product of her delusion?
71) Stone mothers
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2019.
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Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is, until her husband buys a flat in its newly renovated interior...
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Hatherleigh
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[2017]
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English
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"Ready reference to mental and emotional health crises and concerns, providing overviews and expert guidance on more serious problems. Ideal for first-responders, teachers, counselors, and human resource professionals. Developed from best-practices of psychiatry, psychology and mental health counseling, Mental Health Emergencies is a guide to providing much-needed care and support to the people in distress who most need help including self-injury,...
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2010
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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
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Caselli and Torre novels volume 2
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Scribner
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2018.
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English
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"A crime thriller set in Rome, as two detectives hunt down a bizarre killer who believes she is already dead"--
"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage...
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Instant New York Times bestseller!
The Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoir-an inspiring story of success, show business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness.
"This shocking true story is General Hospital on anabolic steroids." - Mehmet Oz, M.D., Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show
Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and...
79) Ashes, ashes
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Barrett Conyors thrillers volume 2
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Dr. Barrett Conyors knows just how dangerous Richard Glash is. She's studied him. An easily triggered paranoid schizophrenic, and devotee of Manson and Gacey, he's currently serving four life sentences for an appalling series of murders. What a terrible mistake it would be if he were to be transferred to a local, far less secure, hospital for the criminally insane. It's what Glash's bleeding-heart attorney Carla Phelps demands. It's what Barrett fears....
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Home Box Office
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[2013]
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English
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Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-travelled reporter.
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