NAMi DC is committed to helping the community understand the challenges, triumphs and resources available regarding mental illness. Our lending library provides a range of materials and is available for free to our members.
Click here to submit a request form and to learn about our terms of use.
For additional information, contact
lendinglibrary@namidc.org or call
202 546-0646.
Books Available
Mental Illness: Can It Be Cured? Prevented?
Author: Irving G. Walmann
Questions you have …Answers you need
Author: Sandra Salmans
An Unquiet Mind: A Menoir of Moods and Madness
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Saving Our Last Nerve: The Black Woman’s Path to Mental Health
Author: Marilyn Martin
Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them
Author: Aphrodite Matsakis
Love Against Hate
Author: Karl Menninger, Jeanette Lyle Menninger
Codependent No More
Author: Melody Beattie
Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers
Author: Judy Tallard-Johnson
I Know This Much is True
Author: Wally Lamb
Strength for His People
Author: Steven Waterhouse
The Zero
Author: Jess Walter
Returning Duski’s Story
Author: Susan White-Bowden
Sorrow’s Web
Author: Anne Sheffield
Los Detalles Sobre Las Drogas Y El Alcohol
Author: Mark S.Gold
Jordi Lisa and David
Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Author: Hannah Green
Hope for the Troubled
Author: Lucy Freeman
Fight Against Fears
Author: Lucy Freeman
I Love the Person You Were Meant to Be
Author: Martha Wiley Emmett
If I Played My Life: Poems by People with Schizophrenia
Author: Kate Goldsmith, Editor
Lighten Up Your Blues
Author: Robert N Moreines, Patricia L. McGuire
Stigma: In our Work,in Our Lives*
The Need for Loving Attention
Author: Marvin E. Fredman
God’s Children
Author: Eric Cecil
Finding My Way: A Teen’s Guide to Living with a Parent who has Experienced Trauma
Author: Michelle D. Sherman, DeAnne M. Sherman
Grant Seeking: Art,Science, Strategy
Author: Glenna M. Crooks, Laudy Q. Robinson
A Glass Half Full: ALoving Husband’s Bout with Mental Illness
Author: Samuel Wright
Off Season: Living the Retirement Dream
Author: Susan White Bowden
Disorders of the Schizophrenic Syndrome
Leopold Bellak, Editor
9 Highland Road
Author: Michael Winerip