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Recommended Publications and References

This list is a brief summary of books dealing with various forms of mental illness.

Please refer to our Handbook for Families and People With Mental Illness for additional information.  The Handbook's appendix contains a more comprehensive collection of books and publications, and also includes listings of audio and video tapes.

Many of these resources are available, and can be checked out, from NAMI of DuPage's library, located in our office at 2100 Manchester Road, Building B, Suite 925 in Wheaton, IL.

	Eric Shapiro. Short of a Picnic,  Be-Mused Publications, 2002.
	Patricia Backlar. The Family Face of Schizophrenia: True Stories of Mental Illness With Practical Advice from America's Leading Experts,  G. P. Putnam, 1995.
	Harold Koplewicz, M.D. It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents, Times Books, 1997.
	Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, The Outsider: A Journey Into my Father's Struggle with Madness, Bantam Doubleday/Dell Publishing, 2000.
	Richard Moskovitz, M.D.  Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder, Taylor Pub., 1996.
	Demitiri F. Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos. The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder, Broadway Books.
	Laura Epstein Rosen, and Xavier Francisco Amader. When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to Help Without Losing Yourself,  Free Press, 1997.
	Stephen Seager, M.D. Street Crazy, The Tragedy of the Homeless Mentally Ill, Westcom Press, 1998.
	E. Fuller Torrey. Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers,  Harper & Row, 1995.

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