Marbles Mania Depression Michelangelo And Me

Author : Ellen Forney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617195
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marbles written by Ellen Forney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind. Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.

Author : Ellen Forney
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683961013
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Steady written by Ellen Forney and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/ companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering a self-help survival guide of tips, tricks and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it.

Author : Ellen Forney
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560977302
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love Led Zeppelin written by Ellen Forney and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Love Led Zeppelin is a long-awaited collection of strips by the Harvey and Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Ellen Forney. This book includes full-page comics published in prestigious weeklies such as the L.A. Weekly and Seattle's The Stranger, as well as the leading feminist magazine Bust, and the Oxford American. Her strips are characterized by bold, sensual brushstrokes and striking images of powerful, butt-kicking women. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri}

Author : Peter Dunlap-Shohl
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085797
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Degeneration written by Peter Dunlap-Shohl and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl, answers the question with humor and passion, recounting the author’s attempt to come to grips with the “malicious whimsy” of this chronic, progressive, and disabling disease. This graphic novel tracks Dunlap-Shohl’s journey through depression, the worsening symptoms of the disease, the juggling of medications and their side effects, the impact on relations with family and community, and the raft of mental and physical changes wrought by the malady. My Degeneration examines the current state of Parkinson’s care, including doctor/patient relations and the repercussions of a disease that, among other things, impairs movement, can rob patients of their ability to speak or write, degrades sufferers’ ability to deal with complexity, and interferes with the sense of balance. Readers learn what it’s like to undergo a dramatic, demanding, and audacious bit of high-tech brain surgery that can mysteriously restore much of a patient’s control over symptoms. But My Degeneration is more than a Parkinson’s memoir. Dunlap-Shohl gives the person newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease the information necessary to cope with it on a day-to-day basis. He chronicles the changes that life with the disease can bring to the way one sees the world and the way one is seen by the wider community. Dunlap-Shohl imparts a realistic basis for hope—hope not only to carry on, but to enjoy a decent quality of life.

Author : Ellen Forney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966025880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Was Seven in '75 written by Ellen Forney and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darryl Cunningham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192784
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychiatric Tales written by Darryl Cunningham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents in graphic novel format first-person perspectives on the experiences of mental illness, portraying the myths, stigmas, and dynamics of a range of psychiatric conditions.

Author : Joyce Farmer
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606997602
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Exits written by Joyce Farmer and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits 'n Clits comics anthology in the 1970s, a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix, spent 11 years crafting Special Exits, a graphic memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack's Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and stepmother.

Author : Bobby Baker
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781846683749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary Drawings written by Bobby Baker and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health.

Author : Stacy Pershall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393080513
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl written by Stacy Pershall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An utterly unique journey down some of the mind’s more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the shocking to the simply lovely.”—Marya Hornbacher Stacy Pershall grew up as an overly intelligent, depressed, deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, population 1,000. From her days as a thirteen-year-old Jesus freak through her eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, this spirited memoir chronicles Pershall’s journey through hell and her struggle with the mental health care system.

Author : Jason Tougaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235607
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Brain written by Jason Tougaw and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain’s relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay—analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self. He argues that their work offers a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Building on recent scholarship, Tougaw’s evenhanded account will be an original contribution to the growing field of neuroscience and literature.