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ITT: Good books about people with mental disorders. Preferably accurate books.

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>> No.1442581

My booky wook

>> No.1442582

>>1442581
THIS

>> No.1442597

"Lowboy" by John Wray

>> No.1442596

The Idiot?

>> No.1442605

Flowers for Algernon is supposed to be rad.

>> No.1442617

>>1442581

I actually really enjoyed that. Wasn't expecting to. I love the way he kept a mouse in his hair for ages.

>> No.1442626

Mask Of Sanity
Jung's Red Book

>> No.1442635

If you're a Larry Niven fan, the Fleet Of Worlds tetralogy is pretty sweet. It's about an eccentric paranoid that's matched against the Puppeteers.

>> No.1442673

Electroboy by Andy Behrman is the autobiography of someone very severely bipolar who had electroconvulsive therapy for it and he was high he could learn languages in a week and he got done for art forgery and I can't remember what else because I read it years ago.

>> No.1442691

Lenz - Georg Büchner.

From Wikipdia:
"Lenz" is a story written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836. The story is based on the documentary evidence of Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, once a friend of Goethe, is the subject of the story. In March 1776 he met Goethe in Weimar. Later he suffered from mental disorder and was sent to Oberlin's vicarage in the Steintal. The story is concerned with this last incident. Although left unfinished at the time of Büchner's death in 1837, it has been seen as a precursor to literary modernism, and its influence on later writers has been immense. The story has been adapted for the stage as Jacob Lenz, a 1978 chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm.

It's my favourite of Büchner's works.

>> No.1442719

>>1442673

Here's the blurb off the actual book:

"Andy Behrman was Superman. He slept three hours a day. He learned new languages in a week. He was a dealer, a hustler and an art forger who made millions. He flew from Geneva to Anguilla then back again to balance out the hot and cold. He gave strangers spontaneous gifts of thousands of dollars from the cash he kept in a refrigerator. Then he was arrested for art forgery, went to prison and soon after that found out he was mad. Following intensive bouts of electric shock therapy, he was cured. No longer Superman, but Electroboy. This is his story."

>> No.1442723

Lolita

>> No.1442784

I know this much is true- wally lamb. the protagonist has anger issues and his twin brother is insitutionalized for schizophrenia after a violent episode in a public place. he fights to get his brother returned to a safer institution where he had previously spent time. i liked it, kinda depressing at times though.

>> No.1442931

>>1442723
ohyou.jpg

>> No.1443002

Have you considered 'Love's Executioner' by Irvin Yalom. Not fiction but an anthology of cases similar to Oliver Sack's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (another good recommendation). It is written in a very beautiful and humanising way, although I recommend starting from chapter 2 and leave the first chapter for last.

>> No.1443009

i mistook my wife for a hat by oliver sacks

>> No.1443033

gogols diary of a madman and one flew over the cuckoos nest

>> No.1443036

>>1443009
lol sacks is raterdad

>> No.1443050

>>1443002
> Love's Executioner - Existential Psychotherapy
> Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Neuropsychiatry

For a fiction book I'd recommend 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold' by Evelyn Waugh

>> No.1443054

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>> No.1443058

>>1443009
An Anthropologist on Mars
>non-fiction case study on several individuals
also by Oliver sacks

>> No.1443067

Pretty much anything by Philip K Dick.
The characters might not be explicitly "insane" but most of them will let you experience life as a paranoid schizophrenic.

>> No.1443069

I really enjoyed the memoir written by Kurt Vonnegut's son, Mark. He developed schizophrenia when he was a hippy living on a commune in the 70's. I think it's called Sunshine Express.

>> No.1443079

>>1443069
i just googled and it seems to be called "Eden Express" but that does sound interesting.

>> No.1443090

>>1443079

Yeah, that was it. It's very good.

>> No.1443110

I read "Will There Ever Be a Tomorrow?" by Frances Farmer but I got the impression it was grossly exaggerated.

At first I was thinking it couldn't be because she says such brutal, uncomplementary things about herself but then I found out it was ghost-written by her friend Jean and the way Jean appears in the book is like Saint Jean and her saintly dad.

>> No.1443116

>>1443033
>one flew over the cuckoo's nest
I think the whole point of that book was that there was nothing wrong with the people there, they just couldn't live in a society that wasn't accepting towards how different they were.

for OP: The Bell Jar.

>> No.1443120

The Bell Jar - a great representation of depression and the post-college malaise that tends to strike once people realize that they'll have to work in a cubicle the rest of their lives. Much of the book is set in a mental hospital.

>> No.1443167

Some books narrated in first person?

>> No.1443171

>>1443167
Bell Jar

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1443256

although it's questionable if there was a real mental disability to begin with, but it is within the subject. A great read.

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1443277

Genie.

>> No.1443730

>>1442784
I love this book. I recommend it for anyone trying to learn more about schizophrenia.

>> No.1443773

>>1443730

meh. it was a marshmallow take on it. the annoying sub-story of his grandfather's book ruined it for me.

>> No.1443788

>>1443277

Studied her in my sociology class. Fascinating stuff.

>> No.1443805

Angelhead

>> No.1443808

Lilith by J.R. Salamanca

>> No.1443811

>>1443788
I remember her from highschool psych. Horrifying how she was treated after escaping.

>> No.1443830

Pale Fire

>> No.1443832

The Catcher in the Rye
Franny and Zooey
The Bell Jar

;D

>> No.1443835

The Catcher in the Rye
Franny and Zooey
The Bell Jar (duh!)

;D

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1443877

"When Rabbit Howls" is a book by The Troops for Truddi Chase, the group of no less than 92 personalities within a single person. It's a first-person account of multiple personality disorder. I really liked it.
My friend had to read it in one of his Psychology classes, and I bought the book from him.

Pic related, it's "When Rabbit Howls."

>> No.1443884

I Am the Cheese

>> No.1445368

>>1443830
i don't remember anyone having a mental disorder :s

>> No.1445373

First Person Plural
Sybil
When Rabbit Howls

I had a mild interest in DID a while ago.