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PSY 250 Memoirs:
Memoir books available through the library
Buzz : a year of paying attention
by
Katherine Ellison 1957-
Call Number: Reserve RJ506.H9 E45 2010
ISBN: 9781401312794
Publication Date: 2010
The author recounts her journey to understand and reconnect with her twelve-year-old son after they were both diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Library has one copy on Reserve at Information Desk
The Collected Schizophrenias
by
Esme Weijun Wang
Call Number: Reserve RC514.W236 C65 2019
ISBN: 9781555978273
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness,
Library has one copy on Reserve at Information Desk
Heart Berries
by
Terese Marie Mailhot
Call Number: RC552.P67 M3555 2018
ISBN: 9781619023345
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest--this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is "an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR).
Library has two copies, one in the Main Collection and one on Reserve at Information Desk.
Hunger
by
Roxane Gay
ISBN: 9780062362605
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe." In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health.
Library has three copies, one on in the Main Collection, one on Reserve at Information Desk and one ebook
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
by
Sarah Kurchak
Call Number: Reserve RC553.A88 K865 2020
ISBN: 9781771622462
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn't let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become "an autistic success story," how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover.
Library has one copy on Reserve at Information Desk
Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide
by
Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels; Darrell Dawsey
Call Number: Reserve ML420.D568 A3 2016
ISBN: 9780062368782
Publication Date: 2017-07-04
In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts--one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.
Library has two copies, one on Reserve at Information Desk and one Audiobook (OverDrive)
Wasted Updated Edition
by
Marya Hornbacher
Call Number: Reserve RC552.A5 H67 1998
ISBN: 9780062327031
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
"An unsparing, terrifying, razor-edged self-portrait that cuts right into the heart of this most paradoxical of psychological disorders." -- Patricia Chao author of Monkey King A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important, and perhaps controversial, new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the memoir of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death--until a particularly horrifying bout with anorexia and bulimia in college forever ended the romance of wasting away. In this updated edition, Hornbacher, an authority in the field of eating disorders, argues that recovery is not only possible, it is necessary. But the journey is not easy or guaranteed. With a different ending to her story that adds a contemporary edge, Wasted continues to be timely and relevant.
Library has two copies, one on Reserve at Information Desk and one ebook
The Weight of Air
by
David Poses
Call Number: Reserve RC564 .P648 2021
ISBN: 9781954861978
Publication Date: 2021-07-06
"Soulful, achingly honest . . . A potent addition to the literature on drug addiction and recovery."--Kirkus Reviews (starred) While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth. Twenty-six inches. Thirty-two years old. More than a decade in a double life fueled by depression and heroin. In his groundbreaking memoir, The Weight of Air, David chronicles his struggle to overcome mental illness and addiction.
Library has one copy on reserve at Information Desk.
What My Bones Know
by
Stephanie Foo
Call Number: Reserve RC552.P67 F66 2022
ISBN: 9780593238103
Publication Date: 2022-02-22
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life "Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal."--Lori Gottlieb. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Library has two copies, one on Reserve at Information Desk and one ebook