From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospital’s forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the world—...

What is Psychiatry and How Can we Improve It? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways-except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel ...

The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fight to bring lithium to the masses. The DNA double helix, penicillin, the X-ray, insulin—these are routinely cited as some of the...

Overmedicated and Undertreated: How I Lost My Only Son to Today's Toxic Children's Mental Health Industry"This is an important book, wonderfully done. Steven Francesco brings a unique and valuable hybrid perspective to the topic...

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the human mind has been studied. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) is a seminal wo...

In her debut as an author, Dr. Jennifer Guttman draws on her more than two decades of experience as a highly-regarded Cognitive Behavioral Therapist to craft an insightful and life-changing workbook, "A Path To Sustainable Life S...

In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly went undercover to expose the horrific conditions inside a women's lunatic asylum. Pretending to be mentally ill, Bly was committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island asylum for ten days. Her undercover i...

When Heather Korbmacher's 10-year-old son began having extreme emotional responses to otherwise normal situations, she began to wonder what was happening to her child. When these responses erupted into violent rages, severe panic atta...

The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are  anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting it...

"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... [Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee Psychiatry has come a long way since th...

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generati...

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often...

When hospitals release seriously mentally ill patients too soon without outpatient follow-up, the patients can end up homeless, jailed, harming others, or even dead. When patients are deemed suitable for inpatient care, they can langu...

"A book that should start a long-overdue national conversation." —Dave Barry Despite their illegality, many Americans are already familiar with the effects of psychedelic drugs. Yet while LSD and MDMA (better known as Ecst...

Summary of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD - Includes Analysis Preview: In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewire...

Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatmen...

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