Please submit the title of any books that you have found useful about young people and others who have a mentally ill parent, to be added to the list below.
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Peggy Kennedy
With brutal honesty and surprising humor, Peggy shares the turbulence of growing up under the shadow of Barbara's illness, of being shuffled from one family member to the next, and of visiting her mother in the mental institution. As the years pass, the shadows of Barbara's mental health challenges become a loving legacy in Peggy's quest to achieve happiness and fulfillment in her life
A vivid, haunting portrayal of one woman's struggle to understand how the past fits in with her future, Approaching Neverland is as inspiring as it is beautifully written, and will stay with you long after the last page is turned.
For further info see http://bit.ly/74V7cA
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Author: Raimond Gaita
Text Publishing Company
Paperback
Biography and Memoir
Published 7/05/2007
View reviews of the film, Romulus, My Father.
Laurie Clancy
The Age
August 15, 2005
Laurie Clancy explores a moving snapshot of a son trying to define his relationship with his father
THIS book came about in unusual circumstances. Raimond Gaita delivered the eulogy at his father's funeral in 1996, and two fellow writers urged him to publish it in the literary journal Quadrant. Out of this came the book, a spare and beautifully written memoir of his father and his own fraught relationship with him. |
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Author, Michelle D. Sherman, PhD. DeAnne M. Sherman.
Publisher, Seeds of Hope USA July 2006
This book attempts to explain mental illness and provide an avenue for young people to list and explore their feelings and emotions and also explores positive ways of coping. Aspects of this book may be useful for some young people when a parent has been recently diagnosed and where the young person is seeking information about their parent's mental illness.
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Author, Michelle D. Sherman, PhD. DeAnne M. Sherman.
Publisher, Seeds of Hope USA December 2005
A resource explaining, Trauma, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD.
This book provides an understanding of PTSD and also looks at the effects on families experiencing PTSD in a parent. The wider affect of Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, are far reaching, across our communities.
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Out Of the Shadows daughters growing up with a 'mad mother'.
Author: Catherine E Camden-Pratt.
Publisher: Finch 2006.
Catherine's work poignantly pulls together stories from the accounts of eight women growing up a mentally ill mother, she discusses trauma, abuse, deprivation and the pains in coping with a mothers' mental illness. This work mirrors some of the early life story work in nnaami, however, Catherine specifically unveils mother daughter relationships and the stages of psychological development in a way never done before, which is highly relevant to these young daughters.
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