Mental Illness in History (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.90 avg rating — 34,829 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,226 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,325 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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Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,642 ratings
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Lisa, Bright and Dark
Lisa, Bright and Dark 3.63 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
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Dibs in Search of Self
Dibs in Search of Self 4.23 avg rating — 14,420 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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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Nell's Quilt
Nell's Quilt 3.32 avg rating — 168 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,218 ratings
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Madness: A Brief History
Madness: A Brief History 3.52 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness 4.07 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 4.03 avg rating — 5,182 ratings
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness 3.62 avg rating — 224 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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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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W-3
W-3 3.63 avg rating — 449 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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Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More 4.13 avg rating — 3,548 ratings
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Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family 3.77 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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Matthew Unstrung
Matthew Unstrung 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis 4.23 avg rating — 2,010 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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Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform
Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic 4.03 avg rating — 787 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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A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction 3.80 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness
How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness 3.62 avg rating — 478 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 — 3,977 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 — 22,260 ratings
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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 4.02 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,288 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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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward 4.09 avg rating — 16,683 ratings
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Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study 3.90 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness 4.08 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Coconut Oil and Low-Carb Solution for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases: A Guide to Using Diet and a High-Energy Food to Protect and Nourish the Brain
The Coconut Oil and Low-Carb Solution for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases: A Guide to Using Diet and a High-Energy Food to Protect and Nourish the Brain 4.28 avg rating — 39 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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Hawkes Harbor
Hawkes Harbor 3.14 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
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A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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One Little Boy: an Extraordinary Book That Explores the Mind of a Troubled Child
One Little Boy: an Extraordinary Book That Explores the Mind of a Troubled Child 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Murphy's Boy
Murphy's Boy 4.15 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Rowan the Strange (Ivy, #3)
Rowan the Strange (Ivy, #3) 3.97 avg rating — 320 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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Sweetheart, I Have Been to School
Sweetheart, I Have Been to School 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland 3.67 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Long Journey Home: A Memoir
The Long Journey Home: A Memoir 2.93 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Black Water
Black Water 3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Exuberance: The Passion for Life
Exuberance: The Passion for Life 3.80 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Fifty-Minute Hour
The Fifty-Minute Hour 3.91 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide 4.12 avg rating — 6,858 ratings
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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health 4.19 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention
Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill 3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Helping Someone with Mental Illness
Helping Someone with Mental Illness 3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health 4.01 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health
Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis 4.06 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care 4.28 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness 4.27 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness
The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness 3.97 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family 3.45 avg rating — 1,643 ratings
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America 3.87 avg rating — 4,179 ratings
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Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis
Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis 3.86 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder 4.19 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing
Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Aspertools: The Practical Guide for Understanding and Embracing Asperger's, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Neurodiversity
Aspertools: The Practical Guide for Understanding and Embracing Asperger's, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Neurodiversity 3.53 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 8)
Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 8) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child 4.28 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference
Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias 4.27 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Aging Together: Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities
Aging Together: Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear 3.74 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Dementia: A Very Short Introduction
Dementia: A Very Short Introduction 3.75 avg rating — 75 ratings
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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But for the grace of God: Milledgeville : [the inside story of the world's largest insane asylum]
But for the grace of God: Milledgeville : [the inside story of the world's largest insane asylum] 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine 4.39 avg rating — 3,020 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 — 3,977 ratings
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Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs
Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 51)
Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 51) 4.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
85.
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction 4.36 avg rating — 460 ratings
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A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It 3.84 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 4.19 avg rating — 15,444 ratings
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness 3.92 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
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The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic 3.93 avg rating — 528 ratings
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Kinds of Blue: An Anthology of Comics about Depression
Kinds of Blue: An Anthology of Comics about Depression 3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression
On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations About Conquering Depression 3.86 avg rating — 130 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 4.27 avg rating — 82,450 ratings
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity 3.97 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Graphic Medicine Manifesto
Graphic Medicine Manifesto 4.17 avg rating — 103 ratings