The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

David Adam · 324 pages

**An intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder** Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history, and personal memoir, David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind

The Body Keeps The Score

Bessel van der Kolk

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. Read by Sean Pratt. 16 hours, 17 minutes unabridged.

You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Rebecca Gladding

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kay Redfield Jamison · 432 pages

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Scott Stossel · 416 pages

The author recounts his lifelong battle with anxiety, showing the many manifestations of the disorder as well as the countless treatments that have been developed to counteract it, and provides a history of the efforts to understand this common form of mental illness.

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Babette Rothschild · 190 pages

"For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory." "It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee · 290 pages

"Frost and Steketee were the first scientists to study hoarding when they began their work. With vivid portraits that show us the traits by which you can identify a hoarder, the authors explain the causes and outline the often ineffective treatments for the disorder while illuminating the pull that possessions exert on all of us." "What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever c

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

S. Nassir Ghaemi · 340 pages

An investigation into the surprisingly deep correlation between mental illness and successful leadership, as seen through some of history's greatest politicians, generals, and businesspeople. "A First-Rate Madness," Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandh

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey · 336 pages

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Jon Ronson · 275 pages

"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psy

The Other Side of the Couch: A Psychiatrist Solves His Most Unusual Cases

Gigi Vorgan · 267 pages

"True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, he has seen it all." This book is a record of the doctor's most bewildering cases.--[book jacket].

Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

James Davies · 320 pages

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Norman Doidge · 448 pages

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed—people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woma

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

American Psychiatric Association · 943 pages

Falling into the Fire

Christine Montross

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

Debbie Nathan · 297 pages

The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.

Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive

Emily Colas · 165 pages

"This raw, darkly comic series of astonishing vignettes is Emily Colas' achingly honest chronicle of her twisted journey through the obsessive-compulsive disorder that came to dominate her world. In the beginning it was germs and food - to her mind, anything from ground-up hypodermic needles to disease-tainted blood could be on her restaurant plate. By the time she faced the fact that she was real

It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

Suzanne O'Sullivan · 352 pages

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

Ronald K. Siegel · 310 pages

Combining the insights of a gifted research scientist with vivid tales that are usually the realm of the novelist, Dr. Ronald Siegel lets his readers experience the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid. This is the first book to investigate the actual experience of paranoia and to demonstrate that under the right conditions - drugs or deprivation, for example - anyone

Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ira Wood · 301 pages

Everyone has felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot

Not a Disease

Sally Satel

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

R.D. Laing · 222 pages

The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

Irving Kirsch · 256 pages

Do antidepressants work? Of course—everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research—a thorough analysis of d

How Doctors Think

Jerome Groopman · 320 pages

A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.