Books by WHCS Authors

AIDS and People With Severe Mental Illness:

A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

by Francine Cournos, MD and Nicholas Bakalar, Published by Yale University Press

City of One: A Memoir

by Francine Cournos,

Published by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“This book offers an extraordinary story of courage

and will as they both take on family adversity--

and do so with impressive success. Here is a touching and instructive autobiography narrated clearly, compellingly: a wise and knowing look inward that has a lot to tell and teach the rest of us.”

—Robert Coles, author of The Moral Intelligence of Children

Understanding Teenage Depression

By Maureen Empfield and Nicholas Bakalar

Published by Henry Holt

“This is a comprehensive and informative book on an urgent public health matter.”

—Publishers Weekly

Narcissus Ascending

A Novel by Karen McKinnon

Published by Picador U.S.A.

“McKinnon's edgy novel is a dead-on portrait of an artist-on-the-make, and a wonderfully disturbing examination of friendship, identity, and self-absorption.”

--Andrea Barrett, author of Servants of the Map

Where the Germs Are:

A Scientific Safari

by Nicholas Bakalar

Published by John Wiley & Sons

“An intriguing, solidly based safari through the world of germs —Booklist

“His writing is witty, and he gives all the details without medical school jargon.”

—Publishers Weekly