Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America 4.16 avg rating — 4,382 ratings
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 3.95 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill 4.18 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment 4.22 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Creation of Psychopharmacology
The Creation of Psychopharmacology 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness 4.11 avg rating — 6,311 ratings
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The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs 4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness 4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct 3.77 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth 4.12 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies 4.25 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life 3.85 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche 4.09 avg rating — 4,188 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,152 ratings
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease 4.16 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,922 ratings
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Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity 3.95 avg rating — 726 ratings
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Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How & Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How & Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications 4.13 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature 4.16 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial 3.71 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement
Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Pharmageddon
Pharmageddon 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health 4.36 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness 3.25 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets 3.85 avg rating — 5,704 ratings
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Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) 4.60 avg rating — 121 ratings
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He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him 3.86 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution
Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man 4.04 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life 4.03 avg rating — 14,674 ratings
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The Sane Society
The Sane Society 4.25 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry 3.64 avg rating — 720 ratings
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On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System
On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System 4.39 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick 4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis 3.98 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness 3.61 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery 4.43 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum 3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry
The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
by: Ian Tinny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness 4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Remembrance of Patients Past: Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940 (Canadian Social History Series)
Remembrance of Patients Past: Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940 (Canadian Social History Series) 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Radical therapist (Pelican books)
The Radical therapist (Pelican books)
by: P. Brown
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study 3.71 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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La Psychologie des Foules
La Psychologie des Foules 3.81 avg rating — 19,887 ratings
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Lines of Flight: Capitalism and Mental Illness
Lines of Flight: Capitalism and Mental Illness 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs: Straight Talk for Best Results
Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs: Straight Talk for Best Results 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis 4.11 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing
The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Anxiety
Anxiety 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of our Sorrows (Quarterly Essay #18)
The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of our Sorrows (Quarterly Essay #18)
by: Gail Bell
3.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia
Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise 4.13 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder
The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder 3.76 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness 3.64 avg rating — 12,203 ratings
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression 4.28 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind-Doctors from 1800
Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind-Doctors from 1800 3.69 avg rating — 934 ratings
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Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families by Breggin MD, Peter R. (2012) Paperback
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families by Breggin MD, Peter R. (2012) Paperback 4.23 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York 3.64 avg rating — 2,834 ratings
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De-Pathologizing Resistance: Anthropological Interventions
De-Pathologizing Resistance: Anthropological Interventions 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Living with Schizophrenia
Living with Schizophrenia 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Writhing Writing: Moving Towards a Mad Poetics
Writhing Writing: Moving Towards a Mad Poetics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Heroes in my Head: A Memoir
Heroes in my Head: A Memoir 3.87 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father 4.29 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
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Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders
Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression 3.59 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Your Consent Is Not Required
Your Consent Is Not Required 3.89 avg rating — 151 ratings
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An Outline of Abnormal Psychology
An Outline of Abnormal Psychology 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Both Sides of the Table: Autoethnographies of Educators Learning and Teaching With/In [Dis]ability
Both Sides of the Table: Autoethnographies of Educators Learning and Teaching With/In [Dis]ability 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire 3.95 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia 4.28 avg rating — 2,383 ratings
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Filosofie van de Waanzin
Filosofie van de Waanzin 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds 3.79 avg rating — 808 ratings
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City of Incurable Women
City of Incurable Women 3.03 avg rating — 686 ratings
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The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis 4.63 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Mental Health Service Users in Research: Critical Sociological Perspectives
Mental Health Service Users in Research: Critical Sociological Perspectives really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
by: Will Hall
4.37 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market 3.78 avg rating — 6,368 ratings
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine 3.81 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada 4.44 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Pure Waanzin
Pure Waanzin 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating — 19,779 ratings
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From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era 3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions and Diseases of the Brain
A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions and Diseases of the Brain really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness 4.09 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery
Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound 3.66 avg rating — 148 ratings
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