Bøger af Dennis Geiger

Kinzua State: Earthshine is a story about the lives of long-term hospitalized patients as told from the perspective of a psychologist who provides services to them. During the winter of 2004 events occur at the hospital that drastically change the lives of both staff and patients. Despite their psychological dilemmas, patients show courage, fortitude and support for those around them as they strive to endure and recover from their illness and plight. The novel is designed for persons with mental health issues, persons who provide support and services to mental health individuals and to casual readers who are interested in the lives of persons with serious mental health issues.

Kinzua State: Seiche is a fictional story that depicts the struggles of long-term mental patients as they wrestle with their afflictions and effects of institutionalization. It is a tale filled with improbable occurrences, deviant doctors, disasters, acts of mercy, poetry, and human tenderness. Narrated by the hospital psychologist, Dr. Masonheimer, the story opens with a patient's night dream that portends the coming of a spiritual Fire Beast that will mysteriously bring justice to a broken Indian treaty. As Masonheimer goes about his business of focusing on different patient problems, he unknowingly finds himself in peril when the Fire Beast seemingly manifests itself as a man-made object that threatens to destroy the hospital. When one disaster is averted another follows. Sensibly written for both young and experienced readers, Seiche counters mass media stereotypes by portraying the courageous and humanistic sides of patients as they strive to overcome their illnesses and regain their self-determination.

Twilight's Abode is a collection of poems and poetic impressions that are inspired by seniors in nursing home facilities. The final stage of one's life should be a time of joyous reflection and contentment. However many older persons who are afflicted by illnesses, lack of resources and dependency on others for daily care, experience sadness, helplessness and despair. Twilight's Abode attempts to give witness to the lives of elders struggling to find validation.

Kinzua State: Virga is a fictional account of persons hospitalized with mental health problems. As a sequel to Kinzua State: Earthshine, Virga depicts the psychological dilemmas that occur during the summer of 2004 at the hospital. Both educational and entertaining the novel depicts the struggles, hopes and humanity of persons with chronic psychological conditions.