{"id":2097,"date":"2020-01-07T22:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2020-01-07T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:38:31","slug":"mental-illness-biographies-remembering-elizabeth-wurtzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/2020\/01\/07\/mental-illness-biographies-remembering-elizabeth-wurtzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elizabeth Wurtzel on the beach with her dog Alistair in 2017 | image from Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Author Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking biography about depression Prozac Nation<\/em> inspired many other confession-style biographies.  Ms. Wurtzel died from metastasized cancer on January 7, 2020.  Here is a selected list of biographies that discuss mental health or addiction held in the University of Iowa Libraries collections.  <\/p>\n

Prozac nation: young and depressed in America<\/a><\/em> \/ Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994<\/p>\n

Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines<\/a><\/em> \/ Nic Sheff, 2007<\/p>\n

The mother knot: a memoir<\/em> <\/a>\/ Kathryn Harrison, 2004 (anorexia)<\/p>\n

The recovering: intoxication and its aftermath<\/em><\/a> \/ Leslie Jamison, 2018<\/p>\n

RX: a graphic memoir <\/em><\/a>\/ Rachel Lindsay, 2018 (bipolar disorder, insurance struggles)<\/p>\n

The years of silence are past: my father’s life with bipolar disorder<\/a><\/em> \/ Stephen P. Hinshaw, 2002<\/p>\n

Will’s choice: a suicidal teen, a desperate mother, and a chronicle of recovery<\/em><\/a> \/ Gail Griffith, 2005<\/p>\n

Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, and me: a graphic memoir<\/em><\/a> \/ Ellen Forney, 2012<\/p>\n

The center cannot hold: my journey through madness<\/em><\/a> \/ Elyn R. Saks, 2007 (schizophrenia)<\/p>\n

Getting off: one woman’s journal through sex and porn addiction<\/a><\/em> \/ Erica Garza, 2018<\/p>\n

A house on stilts: mothering in the age of opioid addiction- a memoir<\/em><\/a> \/ Paula Becker, 2019<\/p>\n

Liar: a memoir<\/em><\/a> \/ Rob Roberge, 2019 (substance abuse)<\/p>\n

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Author Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking biography about depression Prozac Nation inspired many other confession-style biographies.  Ms. Wurtzel died from metastasized cancer on January 7, 2020.  Here is a selected list of biographies that discuss mental health or addiction held in the University of Iowa Libraries collections.   Prozac nation: young and depressed in America \/ Elizabeth Wurtzel,Continue reading “Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[233],"syndication":[37,48],"coauthors":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}