Mental Hospital Nonfiction

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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,403 ratings
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Detour from Normal
Detour from Normal 3.77 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,834 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,418 ratings
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A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces 3.69 avg rating — 260,944 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. 3.60 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
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Naked
Naked 4.10 avg rating — 271,051 ratings
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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
by: Tom Davis
3.66 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life 4.03 avg rating — 14,674 ratings
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Crazy All the Time On the Psych Ward of Bellevue Hospital
Crazy All the Time On the Psych Ward of Bellevue Hospital 3.89 avg rating — 480 ratings
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But Inside I'm Screaming
But Inside I'm Screaming 3.47 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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The Day the Voices Stopped
The Day the Voices Stopped 4.05 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Becoming Anna
Becoming Anna 3.86 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
The Sunset Strip Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls 3.90 avg rating — 4,704 ratings
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin 3.39 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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Thin
Thin 4.02 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
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The Burn Journals: A Memoir
The Burn Journals: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder 3.96 avg rating — 7,367 ratings
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Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived 4.75 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating — 34,822 ratings
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress
The Last Time I Wore a Dress 3.89 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook 4.58 avg rating — 39,391 ratings
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Murphy's Boy
Murphy's Boy 4.15 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Winnie: My Life in the Institution
Winnie: My Life in the Institution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Hearing Voices: Reflections of a Psychology Intern
Hearing Voices: Reflections of a Psychology Intern 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist 3.64 avg rating — 909 ratings
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Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope
Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope 3.80 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Loony-Bin Trip
The Loony-Bin Trip 3.83 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Detour From Normal
Detour From Normal 3.77 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic 3.69 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
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In All Things: A Return to the Drooling Ward
In All Things: A Return to the Drooling Ward
by: Ed Davis
4.09 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Purge: Rehab Diaries
Purge: Rehab Diaries 3.79 avg rating — 1,855 ratings
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Suicide Junkie
Suicide Junkie 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
by: Alex Beam
3.70 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,457 ratings
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Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today
Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness 3.99 avg rating — 795 ratings
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And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children
And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl 3.91 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
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My Heart Stopped Beating
My Heart Stopped Beating
by: Chamed
3.42 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Letting Go
Letting Go 4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Schizophrenia - Who Cares? A Father's Story
Schizophrenia - Who Cares? A Father's Story 3.71 avg rating — 93 ratings
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A Historical Reader: The New York Times and Madness, 1851-1922
A Historical Reader: The New York Times and Madness, 1851-1922 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sweetheart, I Have Been to School
Sweetheart, I Have Been to School 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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House Full of Insects
House Full of Insects 3.88 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals 4.26 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Scarred: She was a slave to her father. Pain was her only escape.
Scarred: She was a slave to her father. Pain was her only escape. 4.29 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions: With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of Insanity
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions: With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of Insanity 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? 3.85 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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A Schizophrenic Will: A Story of Madness, A Story of Hope
A Schizophrenic Will: A Story of Madness, A Story of Hope 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple 4.12 avg rating — 3,224 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 Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings
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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity 3.88 avg rating — 3,732 ratings
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Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 3.84 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind 4.17 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic 3.69 avg rating — 3,976 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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A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery
A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery 3.77 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy 3.92 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction 4.17 avg rating — 102,393 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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Ten Days in a Mad-House
Ten Days in a Mad-House 3.86 avg rating — 23,038 ratings
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The Matteawan Asylum (The Asylum for Insane Criminals Book 1)
The Matteawan Asylum (The Asylum for Insane Criminals Book 1) 3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings
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All of Me
All of Me
by: Kim Noble
4.20 avg rating — 1,095 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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W-3
W-3 3.63 avg rating — 449 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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Asylum
Asylum 3.82 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Back Building
The Back Building 3.71 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness 4.24 avg rating — 4,624 ratings
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Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital
Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital 3.85 avg rating — 229 ratings
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A Masque of Infamy
A Masque of Infamy 4.04 avg rating — 77 ratings
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To Die For
To Die For
by: Carol Lee
3.28 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit 4.01 avg rating — 710 ratings
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The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating — 22,630 ratings
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Asylum Piece
Asylum Piece 4.02 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Lunatic: The Rise and Fall of an American Asylum
Lunatic: The Rise and Fall of an American Asylum 3.77 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Under Observation: Life Inside the McLean Psychiatric Hospital
Under Observation: Life Inside the McLean Psychiatric Hospital 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Insane Asylums: A Detailed Synopsis Of Their History And Mistreatment Of Patients (Psychopath, Sociopath, Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Mental Health, Insanity Book 3)
Insane Asylums: A Detailed Synopsis Of Their History And Mistreatment Of Patients (Psychopath, Sociopath, Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Mental Health, Insanity Book 3)
by: Alex Rice
3.02 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 3.94 avg rating — 50,748 ratings
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The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins 3.61 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
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How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention 3.85 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Gentle Asylum: Life at a Mental Hospital
Gentle Asylum: Life at a Mental Hospital 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings