Books

The topics are in alphabetical order. All of the selected books were written/updated within the last decade and a half. There are other books from earlier; if interested in those, please email swvanami@gmail.com. Please keep in mind this is a work in progress.

* Denotes an exception to the publishing date statement as it is a person's memoir/story.
                                                             

Bipolar Disorder

                                                        
                                                                    Adults/General

• The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz, PhD, 2nd Edition, New York: Guilford Press, 2011.                                           

Where to Find Locally: Wythe County Public Library (2nd edition; Wytheville/non fiction/ call no. 616.89 MIKLOWITZ); Johnson City Public Library (2nd edition; 2nd floor/non fiction/call no. 616.895 MIK); Kingsport Public Library (2nd edition; 4th floor stacks/adult non fiction/call no. 616.895 Miklowitz); Northeast State Community College Basler Library (2nd edition; 2nd floor/call no. RC516.M554 2011); Smyth-Bland Regional Library (1st edition; Chilhowie and Marion/ call no. 616.895 MIK); Bristol Public Library (1st edition-2002; main/non fiction/call no. 616.895 MIK); ETSU Sherrod Library (1st edition-2002; 4th floor/call no. RC516. M554 2002); Sullivan County Colonial Heights (non fiction/call no. 616.895 Mik)

• Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers by E. Fuller Torrey, Basic Books, 2002. 

Where to Find Locally: Bristol Public Library (main/non fiction/call no. 616.895 TOR) ; Bristol Public Library Avoca Branch (Avoca/non fiction/call no. 616.895 TOR); Tazewell County Library Bluefield Branch (Bluefield/non fiction/call no. 616.895 TO); Tazewell County Library (Tazewell/non fiction/call no. 616.895 TO); Washington County Public Library in Virginia (Abingdon/non fiction/call no. 616.895 Tor); Emory and Henry College Library (main/call no. RC516.T67 2005)

• Where Are the Cocoa Puffs? A Family's Journey Through Bipolar Disorder by Karen Winters Schwartz, Goodman Beck Publishing, 2010. 

Where to Find Locally: No locations found. Please look in bookstores.

•  Bipolar by Koehler by John Koehler, 2005.

Where to Find Locally: No locations found. Please look in bookstores.

• A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness by Patty Duke, Bantam Books, 1993. *

Where to Find Locally: Washington County Public Library in Virginia--Mendota Branch (Mendota/non fiction/call no. 616.89 Duk); Smyth-Bland Regional Library (Marion/call no. 616.8950092 DUK); Wythe County Public Library (Wytheville/non fiction/call no. 616.89 DUK); Galax Public Library (Galax/non fiction/call no. 616.89 DUKE); ETSU Sherrod Library (4th floor/call no. RC516.D85 1993)

Teens/Children

• If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder by Dwight L. Evans, MD and Linda Wasmer Andrews, Oxford University Press, 2005. 

Where to Find Locally: Bristol Public Library (Bristol-Main/non fiction/call no. 618.92 EVA); Bristol Public Library Avoca Branch (Bristol-Avoca/non fiction/call no. 618.92 EVA); Grayson County Public Library (non fiction/call no. 618.92 EVA); Smyth-Bland Regional Library (Marion/call no. 618.92 EVA); Washington County Public Library in Virginia (Abingdon/Parent Shelf/call no. 618.92 Eva); Tazewell Consumer Health College (Tazewell/call no. 616.8527 EV)

• The Bipolar Child: The definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder by Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos. New York: Broadway Books, 2006.  

Where to Find Locally: Bristol Public Library (3rd edition; Bristol-Main/non fiction/call no. 618.92 PAP);  Wythe County Public Library (3rd edition; Wytheville/non-fiction/call no. 618.92 PAP); Galax Public Library (1st edition; Galax/non-fiction/call no. 618.92 PAP); Smyth-Bland Regional Library (3rd edition; Marion/call no. 618.92895 PAP); Washington County Public Library (3rd edition; Abingdon/Parent Shelf/call no. 618.92 PAP)

•  The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child: A Survival Guide for Parents by Judith Lederman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. 

Where to Find Locally: Bristol Public Library can request this book from surrounding libraries in Tennessee

•  Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder by George T. Lynn, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000. 

Where to Find Locally: Washington County Public Library (Abingdon/internet)

• New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder by Boris Birmacher, MD., New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. 

Where to Find Locally: Bristol Public Library can request this book from surrounding libraries in Tennessee; Washington County Public Library (1st edition; Abingdon/non fiction/call no. 618.92 Bir);  Galax Public Library (1st edition; Galax/non-fiction/call no. 618.92 Bir)

• Bipolar Disorder in Childhood and Early Adolescence edited by Barbara Geller and Melissa Delbello, Paperback Edition, Guilford Press 2005. 

Where to Find Locally: No locations found. Please look in bookstores.