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162) The Wackness
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, is troubled high school student Luke Shapiro who is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New...
164) Darkness rising
Author
Series
East Salem trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Formats
Description
Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and her partner Tommy Gunderson continue to investigate the ritual murder of Julie Leonard, last seen alive at a party attended by students from St. Adrian's Academy, an exclusive boys' school in New York's Westchester County. Another death--of an Alzheimer's patient and pious historian, Abbie Gardener, somehow crushed by sucking asphyxiation one night in her room at the school--complicates their inquiry.
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Newly-divorced psychiatrist Frasier Crane finds himself host of his own call-in radio advice show. When he's not dealing with the problems of his troubled listeners, he's embroiled in skirmishes at home with his retired police detective father, his father's physical therapist, and his younger brother and rival, Niles.
Author
Series
Frank Clevenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A riot occurs in a mental asylum in Massachusetts led by a doctor, incarcerated after being framed as a serial killer of women. Police call in a psychiatrist to talk the doctor into surrendering, unaware the psychiatrist is the one who framed him.
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
"In 1930 Dr. Karl A. Menninger, one of America's most distinguished psychiatrists, was asked by the editor of Ladies' Home Journal to write a monthly column that would address mental health issues and answer questions from readers. The result was the widely popular column "Mental Hygiene in the Home," which ran for eighteen months at a time when the American public was just beginning to appreciate the idea of mental hygiene and psychotherapy." "Of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Psychiatrist Imani Banks and her restaurateur husband Philip are living the New York City dream. They own a posh townhouse in Brooklyn Heights, their two children are standouts at their private school, and they are well-liked in their affluent community. Tonya Sayre is living the NYC nightmare. After moving to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a Broadway star, she has found herself stuck in a waitressing job and struggling to support her teenage...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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"Flying couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy Kurzwil weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a protrait not only of what it means to be part of a family, but also...
171) Harleen
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told through the eyes of the only person who knows her better than anyone: Harleen. It's been months since Harleen began interviewing criminals at Arkham Asylum, and she's having...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The chief of psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City presents a memoir of her work inside Bellevue Hospital's forensic psychiatry unit to share insights into the cases, colleagues, and system that have shaped her views about survival and humanity.
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