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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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Anatomy of an Epidemic

By Robert Whitaker ,

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Open City
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Open City

By Teju Cole ,

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The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
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The Discovery of the Unconscious

By Henri F. Ellenberger ,

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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

By Jennifer Ashley ,

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Sailor's Heart
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Sailor's Heart

By Martin Campbell ,

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The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
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The Other Side of Silence

By Linda Gask ,

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Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
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Outside Mental Health

By Will Hall ,

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Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences
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Diary of a Baby

By Daniel N. Stern ,

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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
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Psychoanalysis

By Janet Malcolm ,

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Inside the Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD
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Inside the Mental

By Kay Parley ,

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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
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Madhouse

By Andrew Scull ,

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The Dream Master
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The Dream Master

By Roger Zelazny ,

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From the Corner Office to Alzheimer's
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From the Corner Office to Alzheimer's

By Michael Ellenbogen ,

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Descriptions and Prescriptions: A Biblical Perspective on Psychiatric Diagnoses and Medications
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Descriptions and Prescriptions

By Michael R. Emlet ,

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History of Madness
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History of Madness

By Michel Foucault , Jonathan Murphy (translator) ,

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Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
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Not in Our Genes

By Richard Lewontin , Steven Rose , Leon J. Kamin

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Faces in the Water
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Faces in the Water

By Janet Frame ,

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Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
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Mad Science

By Stuart A. Kirk , Tomi Gomory , David Cohen

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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

By Peter Stastny , Peter Lehmann ,

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The Lobotomist's Wife
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The Lobotomist's Wife

By Samantha Greene Woodruff ,

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The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness
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The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon

By Laure Murat , Deke Dusinberre (translator) ,

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Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974
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Psychiatric Power

By Michel Foucault , Jacques Lagrange (editor) , Arnold I. Davidson (editor) , Graham Burchell (translator)

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Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
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Psychiatry Under the Influence

By Robert Whitaker , Robert Whitaker , Lisa Cosgrove

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A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
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A History of Psychiatry

By Edward Shorter ,

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The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches
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The Mind and the Moon

By Daniel Bergner ,

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Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health
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Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health

By Bruce Cohen (editor) ,

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Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
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Callings

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The Dice Man
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The Dice Man

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The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry
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The Art of Asylum-Keeping

By Nancy Tomes ,

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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
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Sybil Exposed

By Debbie Nathan ,

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The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
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The Psychiatric Persuasion

By E. Lunbeck ,

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Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
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Last Resort

By Jack D. Pressman ,

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Creating Mental Illness
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Creating Mental Illness

By Allan V. Horwitz ,

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