Psychology to read
1. 
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
by:
James Davies
4.09 avg rating — 1,278 ratings 2. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,793 ratings 
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,121 ratings
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Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
by:
Ian Hacking
4.09 avg rating — 217 ratings 6. 
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Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
by:
Ian Hacking
3.74 avg rating — 147 ratings 9. 
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by:
R.D. Laing
4.11 avg rating — 6,311 ratings 10. 
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics
by:
R.D. Laing
4.19 avg rating — 466 ratings 11. 
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
by:
James Davies
4.23 avg rating — 2,009 ratings 12. 
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
by:
David Leite
3.78 avg rating — 864 ratings 14. 
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
by:
Thomas Szasz
3.77 avg rating — 1,719 ratings 
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind
by:
Ethan Watters
4.09 avg rating — 4,188 ratings 16. 
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 4.03 avg rating — 5,182 ratings
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by:
Erving Goffman
4.15 avg rating — 1,556 ratings 18. 
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by:
Erving Goffman
3.94 avg rating — 3,172 ratings 
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Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
by:
Jessica Taylor
3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings 26. 
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
by:
Andrew Scull
3.95 avg rating — 726 ratings 
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
by:
Andrew Scull
4.09 avg rating — 400 ratings 
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings 34. 
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror 4.39 avg rating — 15,052 ratings
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Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good? 4.09 avg rating — 305 ratings
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(Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health
by:
Jonathan Foiles
4.17 avg rating — 179 ratings 43. 
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by:
Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 44. 
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
by:
Susannah Cahalan
3.64 avg rating — 12,201 ratings