Feeling Better at SLU

[mir_fin]

So, I just wanted to say thanks to you all for being my sounding board. Poor Marc has had to hear it from me everyday! I'm feeling more confident about classes. Currently I'm sitting in the library at SLU waiting until class at 4pm tonight. We had a short meeting today at Noon, so I am attempting to be productive. I have a paper to edit from my

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[bluecatahoula]

Hah! Ok, here is the kind of things librarians come up with when they have too much time on their hands (*starred titles are nonfiction):

Barrett, Joyce Durham
Quiet Crazy (Depression, child abuse)
*Chase, Trudi
When Rabbit Howls (Disassociative Identity Disorder [Multiple Personalities])
--this could be a whole list in and of itself. Since I don’t think it’s exactly what you’re looking for, I’ll just list the one. Let me know if you need more of the same
D’Erasmo, Stacey
A Seahorse Year
Greenberg, Joanne
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Schizophrenia)
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Martin, Charles
Wrapped in Rain: A Novel of Coming Home
*McLean, Richard
Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia
O’Farrell, Maggie
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Palahnuik, Chuck
Fight Club?
*Saks, Elyn R.
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Paranoid Schizophrenia)
*Schiller, Lisa
The Quiet Room (Schizophrenia, drug addiction)
Shakespeare, William
King Lear
*Steele, Ken
The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope (Schizophrenia)
*Styron, William
Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness (Depression)

I also found a bibliography of Madness Narratives here (there may be some overlap here).

Finally, I ran across a few titles of books on the subject that may be of interest (though you'll of course want to check into them more thoroughly--you may have even read some of these):

Hout, Sylvia
Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost
Hubert, Susan J.
Questions of Power: the Politics of Women’s Madness Narratives
Small, Helen
Love’s Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865

Packard, Elizabeth.
--Anything by her. Imprisioned because she disagreed with her husband’s religious beliefs. Wrote several books about her experience in Illinios, c. 1860s.

[bluecatahoula]

Whoa, sorry about the funky formatting there. Let me know if you want me just to email you the Word doc that I cut and pasted from!

[mir_fin]

its totally fine....THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! This does help. The Susan Hubert book is wonderfully helpful. I have it sitting in my bag right now. This will be the Third time I've used it. Maybe I should buy it at this point? LOL

Also, I know I'm horrible at calling you. Things have gotten stressful with this whole starting school and now issues with our apartment...grrrr. We'll get in touch soon. :)

[bluecatahoula]

It's fine--call me when you have time! And I think the bibliography link is going to be your best bet, but good luck overall!