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Mental disorder Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Nicola Moriarty The best books featuring strong female leads (and one male!) with mental illness or neurodiversity Book cover of Other People's Houses Book cover of The Good Sister Book cover of Grace Under Pressure Book cover of The Mystery of Mercy Close Book cover of Contacts
  • Susan Doherty The best narratives on schizophrenia: capturing voices, visions, and the unyielding resilience within Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Book cover of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Book cover of I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment Book cover of No One Cares about Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America
  • Mona Simpson The best books that tell a story of life with mental illness Book cover of Joshua Lutz: Hesitating Beauty Book cover of The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic Book cover of Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Book cover of The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
  • Frederick E. Vars The best books to change how you think about mental health Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Book cover of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Book cover of Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis Book cover of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
  • Trisha Cull The best books to reveal the truth about mental illness Book cover of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Book cover of Untamed Book cover of Madness: A Bipolar Life Book cover of Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Book cover of Girl, Interrupted
  • Alexander Kriss, Ph.D. The best books on how we understand (and misunderstand) mental illness Book cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Book cover of The Topeka School Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Book cover of The Lathe of Heaven Book cover of H is for Hawk
  • Karen Winters Schwartz The best “fun” books on living with or living with someone with a mental disorder Book cover of Running with Scissors: A Memoir Book cover of She's Come Undone Book cover of The Catcher in the Rye Book cover of The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia Book cover of The More You Ignore Me
  • Marin Sardy The best empowering personal stories of mental illness Book cover of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir Book cover of A Mind Apart: Journeys in a Neurodiverse World Book cover of The Crying Book Book cover of Denial: A Memoir of Terror Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
  • Dave Mowry The best books about bipolar disorder from someone who has lived with it Book cover of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Book cover of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Book cover of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding & Helping Your Partner Book cover of As A Man Thinketh Book cover of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding & Helping Your Partner
  • JoEllen Notte The best books to help you talk about mental health, because it’s freaking hard Book cover of Rising Strong: The Reckoning. the Rumble. the Revolution. Book cover of No One Cares about Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America Book cover of Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself Book cover of The No-Bullshit Guide to Depression Book cover of Rachel's Holiday
  • Barbara Claypole White The best romance novels to feature characters with mental illness Book cover of The Prince Book cover of The Charm Offensive Book cover of The Reckless Oath We Made Book cover of Weather Girl Book cover of Ten Rules for Faking It
  • Susan S. Sered The best books about mental illness, drug use, trauma, and crime Book cover of Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness: Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict Book cover of Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill Book cover of Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness Book cover of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison Book cover of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
  • Sami Timimi The best books to make you question everything you thought you knew about mental health Book cover of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America Book cover of The Wretched of the Earth Book cover of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche Book cover of Agnes's Jacket Book cover of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
  • Mikita Brottman The best books set in psychiatric hospitals by women who have spent time there Book cover of W-3 Book cover of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Book cover of The Bell Jar Book cover of Faces in the Water Book cover of The Snake Pit
  • Owen Whooley The best books on psychiatry’s troubled past Book cover of Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine Book cover of The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease Book cover of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America Book cover of Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine Book cover of Creating Mental Illness
  • Sandra L. Rostirolla The best novels that nail what life is like living with mental illness Book cover of Turtles All the Way Down Book cover of My Heart and Other Black Holes Book cover of Darius the Great Is Not Okay Book cover of Fighting Words Book cover of A List Of Cages
  • Emily Baum The best books for rethinking the line between sanity and madness Book cover of Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine Book cover of Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates Book cover of The Yellow Wallpaper Book cover of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche Book cover of The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
  • Ann Jacobus The best novels for young readers that deal with mental illness Book cover of Fighting Words Book cover of Challenger Deep Book cover of It's Kind of a Funny Story Book cover of Calvin Book cover of Wintergirls
  • Deborah Kasdan The best books on startling encounters with mental illness Book cover of Jane Eyre Book cover of Wide Sargasso Sea Book cover of I Know This Much Is True Book cover of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music Book cover of The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches
  • John E. Dowling The best books on healthy and compromised brains Book cover of The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves Book cover of Flowers For Algernon Book cover of An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Book cover of Recollections of My Life Book cover of Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
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