We’ve
introduced a selection of comic books and graphic novels themed around mental
health – you can find them on the new books shelf in the library. They’re part
of our Evening Library Assistant’s dissertation project and he’s looking for
volunteers to interview about whether or not graphic novels have a place in
training. Email Anthony.Farthing.1@city.ac.uk if you’re interested in taking part.
To see the full
collection, just search ‘comics’ in the catalogue or see below for a listing:
Are You My Mother? by Alison
Bechdel
An
autobiographical account of psychotherapy and attempts to reconcile the
mother-daughter relationship through the work of D W Winnicott.
This sad,
hopeful and sometimes humorous reflection is an honest portrayal of a mother’s
response to the death of her two-year-old son.
Biological Psychology. An illustrated
Survival Guide by Paul Aleixo and Murray Baillon
Mini-lectures
in comics form, taking in key topics such as the brain and nervous system,
emotions and
sexual behaviour, and memory and learning.
Couch Fiction. A Graphic Tale of
Psychotherapy by Philippa Perry
A fictionalised
account of the therapeutic process, influenced and inspired by the real-life
experiences of the author’s psychotherapy practice.
Daddy's Girl by Debbie Drechsler
A collection
of short graphic works depicting the experiences of two young girls struggling
with incest abuse at the hands of their fathers.
Freud by Corrine
Maier and Anne Simon
An
entertaining introduction to the life and work of Sigmund Freud, beautifully
illustrated and shot through with humour.
HOAX Psychosis Blues by Ravi
Thornton
A personal
account of a young man suffering with schizophrenia and his journey through
recovery and relapse.
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie
Brosh
Based on the
humorous blog, this book’s episodes on mental illness made a US psychology
professor state ‘I know of no better depiction of the guts of what it’s like to
be severely depressed.’
Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie
Green
An evocative
autobiographical account of the author’s long-term struggle with an eating
disorder.
Look Straight Ahead by Elaine M
Will
A graphic
novel that centres on an adolescent boy’s mental breakdown brought on by
bullying and pressures at school.
Marbles. Mania, depression,
Michelangelo, & Me: a Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney
The author’s
experience of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the effects of her
therapy and medication.
Neurocomic by Hana Ros
and Matteo Farinella
A journey
through the inner workings of the brain that makes an approachable introduction
to neurobiological processes.
Psychiatric Tales by Darryl
Cunningham
A former
care worker in a psychiatric ward gives a sympathetic look into various aspects
of mental illness through a series of short stories.
Tangles. A Story About
Alzheimer's, my Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt
A revealing
portrait of how Alzheimer's disease transformed the author’s mother and her
family. Drawn in spare black-and-white, with clear and extremely candid text.
The Bad Doctor by Ian
Williams
A work of graphic fiction but with some
autobiographical elements, including the author’s past experiences of obsessive
compulsive disorder.
The Complete Maus by Art
Spiegelman
A Pulitzer
Prize winning graphic biography recounting the Holocaust and how the aftermath
of guilt and grief affected the author’s family.
The Courage to be Me. A Story of Courage,
Self-Compassion and Hope After Sexual Abuse by Nina Burrowes
Written by
psychologist and researcher Dr Nina Burrowes, find out how meeting each other
and learning about recovery helped a group of abuse survivors.
The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon
Nao Brown
suffers from violent morbid obsessions and a racing, unruly mind. A fictional
graphic novel, but informed by the author's wife’s experiences of obsessive
compulsive disorder in her teens.
The Ride Together by Paul
Karasik
Chapters of
prose alternate with chapters of comics, setting out to honestly and
respectfully document what life is like with autism in the family.
The Wolf Man: Graphic Freud by Richard
Appignanesi and Sława Harasymowicz
An
atmospheric retelling of one of Freud’s most famous cases, Sergei Pankejeff’s
obsessional neuroses.
Wire Mothers. Harry Harlow and
the Science of Love by Jim Ottaviani
Graphic
narrative account of controversial maternal-separation, dependency needs and
social isolation experiments with monkeys in the 1950s.
With the Light. Raising an
Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe
A tale of
family life in Japan drawn in Manga style, depicting the challenges faced when
a mother discovers her son’s autism.
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