Suggested Reading List
For any of the books listed that SAVE does not have available from our online store, links have been provided to the appropriate pages on Amazon.com or froogle.com.
Depression & Other Brain Illnesses
Understanding Depression - A Complete Guide to Its Diagnosis & Treatment
By Donald F. Klein, M.D. & Paul H. Wender, M.D.
Questions & Answers About Depression and Its Treatment
By Ivan K. Goldberg, M.D.
Overcoming Depression
By Demitri Papolos, M.D. & Janice Papolos
The Broken Brain
By Nancy Andreasen, M.D.
You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way
By Colette Dowling
On the Edge of Darkness
By Kathy Cronkite
Triumph Over Fear
By Jerilynn Ross
Surviving Schizophrenia
By E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs
By Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
Undoing Depression - What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You
By Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.
Choosing To Live - How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy
By Thomas E. Ellis, Psy.D. & Cory F. Newman, Ph.D.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
By Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness
By Terry L. Wise
When Going Through Hell... Don’t Stop!
By Douglas Bloch
Children & Adolescents
No One Saw My Pain - Why Teens Kill Themselves
By Andrew Slaby, M.D. & Lili Frank Garfinkel
Helping Your Depressed Teenager - A Guide for Parents & Caregivers
By Gerald D. Oster, Ph.D. & Sarah S. Montgomery, MSW
Helping Your Depressed Child - A Reassuring Guide to the Causes & Treatments of Childhood & Adolescent Depression
By Lawrence L. Kearns, M.D.
It's Nobody's Fault - New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents
By Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.
Depression in the Young – What We Can Do to Help Them
By Trudy Carlson
Sad Days, Glad Days
By DeWitt Hamilton (a storybook for children about adult depression)
When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens
By Bev Cobain R.N., C.
Depression - Challenge the Beast Within Yourself and Win
By Cait Irwin
The Power to Prevent Suicide: A Guide for Teens Helping Teens
By Richard E. Nelson, Ph.D., & Judith C. Galas
Suicide
Night Falls Fast
By Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide: Survivors - A Guide for Those Left Behind
By Adina Wrobleski
Suicide: Why?
By Adina Wrobleski
Suicide: The Forever Decision - For Those Thinking About Suicide, and For Those Who Know, Love, or Counsel Them
By Paul G. Quinnett
Suicide: Intervention & Therapy - Undoing the Forever Decision
By Paul G. Quinnett
Preventing Youth Suicide - A Handbook for Educators & Human Service Professionals
By Marcia L. McEvoy and Alan W. McEvoy
Suicide Survivors' Handbook
By Trudy Carlson
The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
By Kathleen Finneran
Why Suicide?
By Eric Marcus
No One Saw My Pain - Why Teens Kill Themselves
By Andrew Slaby, M.D. & Lili Frank Garfinkel
Bart Speaks Out – Breaking the Silence on Suicide; an interactive storybook/workbook for children
By Linda Goldman, M.S.
When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens
By Bev Cobain
Choosing To Live – How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy
By Thomas E. Ellis, Psy.D. & Cory F. Newman, Ph.D.
Autobiographies
An Unquiet Mind
By Kay Redfield Jamison
Darkness Visible - A Memoir of Madness
By William Styron
The Beast - A Reckoning with Depression
By Tracy Thompson
A Brilliant Madness
By Patty Duke
Conquering the Beast Within
By Cait Irwin
Grief After Suicide
Suicide: Survivors - A Guide for Those Left Behind
By Adina Wrobleski
Healing the Hurt Spirit
By Catherine Greenleaf
Suicide Survivors' Handbook
By Trudy Carlson
After Sucicide
By John Hewett
Tragedy to Triumph
By Reuel Nygaard
A Grief Observed
By C.S. Lewis
My Son, My Son
By Iris Bolton
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
By Ann Smolin, C.S.W. and John Guinan, Ph.D.
The Grieving Child: A Parent's Guide
By Helen Fitzgerald
When Dinosaurs Die - A Guide to Understanding Death (a storybook for children)
By Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
Helping Children Grieve
By Theresa Huntley
Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child
By Earl A. Grollman
The Suicide of My Son - A Story of Childhood Depression
By Trudy Carlson
Bart Speaks Out – Breaking the Silence on Suicide; an interactive storybook/workbook for children
By Linda Goldman, M.S.
But I Didn't Say Goodbye
By Barbara Rubel
Eric's Story-Surviving A Son's Suicide
By Sandra Underwood
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