Books

Books

Patient Lives

Blackbridge, Persimmon. Sunnybrook. A True Story With Lies. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996. 

Blackbridge, Persimmon and Sheila Gilhooly. Still Sane. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1985.

Burstow, Bonnie and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink-Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star, 1998. 

Copp, Terry and Bill McAndrew. Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990.   

Endler, Norman. Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist’s Personal Journey out of his Depression. New York: Wiley, 1982.

Grenier, Guy. Les monstres, les fous et les autres: La folie criminelle au Québec. Montréal: Trait d’union, 1999.

Heeney, Helen. Life Before Medicare: Canadian Experiences. Toronto: Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations, 1995. 

Henton, Darcy with David McCann. Boys Don’t Cry: The Struggle for Justice and Healing in Canada’s Biggest Sex Abuse Scandal. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995. 

Kwok, Fei-Yeng Carolyn. The Tormented Mind: A True Story of Manic Depression. Toronto: C&R Publisher, 2000.

Mays, John Bentley. In the Jaws of the Black Dogs: A Memoir of Depression. New York: Viking, 1995.

Mitchinson, Wendy. The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 

Moran, James E. Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000. 

Moran, James E. and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006: 69-96.

Reaume, Geoffrey. Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000. 

Scott, Charles (ed.). To Light the Darkness: An Anthology On Pastoral Care Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Chapel Ministry at London Psychiatric Hospital, London, Ontario. London, Ont.: Scott’s Select Services, 1989.

Scott, George D. Inmate: The Casebook Revelations of a Canadian Penitentiary Psychiatrist. Montreal: Optimum Publishing International, 1982. 

Smith, Dorothy E. and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1975. 

Sobsey, Dick. Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities: The End of Silent Acceptance? Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1994.

St-Amand, Néré. The Politics of Madness. Halifax: Formac Publishing, 1988. 

Stimpson, Liz, Colleen Weir, Georgia Maxwell and Margaret C. Best. Unlocking The Doors: Abuse Against Vulnerable People Within Ontario’s Institutions. Toronto: Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped; Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Recreation and Tourism Office for Disability Issues, 1996. 

Su, Fu. I Once Was Lost: The Immigrant Experience and the Recovering Schizophrenic. Toronto: Parkminister Publishing, 1994.

Warsh, C. Krasnick (ed.). Drink in Canada: Historical Essays. Montreal and Kingston: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 1993.