Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of ...
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Conscious...
Martha StoutWhy does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how ...
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases...
Darby Penney“The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric ...
Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow o...
Clea SimonIn classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of mental illness on the lives of those who share their w...
Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise
Jane Middelton-Moz"It is my feeling that debilitating shame and guilt are at the root of all dysfunctions in families," says Jane Middelton-Moz.A few common characteristics of adults shamed in childhood:You may suffer extreme shyness, embarrassment and...
One by One; Portraits of Mental Illne...
Londa BAuthor Londa B. invites you to travel through the difficult pathways of the mentally ill, their loved ones, as well as their caretakers. One by One, each character will tell his or her story in regards to their mental disability. Auth...
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma an...
Jonathan ShayIn this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining im...
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medi...
Robert WhitakerSchizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old me...
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Ins...
Alex BeamIts landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the ...
Take control of your symptoms--and take charge of your lifeIf you're dealing with bipolar disorder, you already know that it’s more than a cycle of “ups” and “downs.” You may also have difficulty with depression and irritabi...
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and t...
Simon Baron-Cohenorderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different wa...
The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert BurtonOne of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language,The Anatomy of Melancholy is an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes, symptoms, and cures — as wel...
They Say You're Crazy: How The World'...
Paula J. CaplanHow are decisions made about who is normal? As a former consultant to those who construct the bible of the mental-health professions,” the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Paula Caplan offers and inside...
The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing U...
Terri CheneyThe New York Times bestselling author blends a pitch-perfect childlike voice with keen adult observation as she shares her heartrending, groundbreaking insider’s look into the fascinating and frightening world of childhood bipolar d...
This seminal early work of Foucault is indispensable to understanding his development as a thinker. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, Mental Illness and Psychology delineates the shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during thi...
Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Ps...
William GlasserGlasser's classic bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold, examines his alternative to Freudian psychoanalytic procedures, explains the procedure, contrasts it to conventional treatment, and describes different individual cases...
Crazy Love: Dealing with Your Partner...
W. Brad JohnsonSheds light on the odd but surprisingly common disorders of personality. Psychologists Johnson and Murray tell us why so many of us are attracted to personality disordered partners, and offer strategies for detecting and avoidin...
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
Search for the Real Self: Unmasking t...
James F. MastersonPersonality disorders - borderline, narcissistic and schizoid - have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their col...
Children of Trauma: Rediscovering You...
Jane Middelton-MozImagine what it would be like to become the healthiest person you could be..... This is the inherent right of each individual but when lingering emotional trauma from our childhood blocks the normal developmental process, we get st...
In Sickness and in Mental Health: Liv...
Diane Mintz"In Sickness and in Mental Health" is a personal journey through the madness of living with mental illness and the uncommon discovery to the road back to health. Author Diane Mintz shares her terrifying experience with bipol...
Jemma's Journey: This thoughtfully wr...
Janet PetersThis illustrated picture book, has been thoughtfully written by a psychologist, to help children who have a parent with mental health issues.
Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orth...
Carl Curt PfeifferBelieving that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1...
Madness: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew ScullMadness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. In this Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull provides a provocative an...
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan SheehanThis renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness...
What is Autism?: Understanding Life w...
Chantal Sicile-KiraInternational autism advocate and bestselling author Chantal Sicile-Kira provides this simple, concise explanation of one of the most prevalent disorders in America.Each year, 1 in every 100 children in America are diagnosed with auti...
"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —ChoiceE. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing i...
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of t...
Ethan WattersThe most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress di...
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets...
Robert WhitakerIn this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every...