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The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
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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
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.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whitaker · 379 pages
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading m
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan Sheehan · 333 pages
Recounts the lonely, harrowing life of a diagnosed schizophrenic, "Sylvia Frumkin", whose experience has included frequent hospitalizations from childhood on, bouts with insulin comas, electroshock treatments, and drug therapy.
Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
Jerome Groopman, Pamela Hartzband · 308 pages
"The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning. Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we're deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting
It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Suzanne O'Sullivan · 352 pages
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Danielle Ofri · 224 pages
"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
Paul Broks · 246 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.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR
American Psychiatric Association · 943 pages
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
James Davies · 320 pages
Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy
Julie Holland · 449 pages
"A groundbreaking guide for women of all ages that shows women's inherent moodiness is a strength, not a weakness"--
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison · 432 pages
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman · 544 pages
What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprisin
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Judith L. Rapoport · 261 pages
Up to six million Americans are afflicted with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a serious, emotionally crippling disease. Cleaning, counting, washing, checking, avoiding—these are just some of the rituals that sufferers are powerless to stop. Now an expert on OCD reveals breakthroughs in diagnosis, successful new behaviorist therapies, drug treatments, and more.
The Mask of Sanity
Hervey M. Cleckley · 510 pages
THE MASK OF SANITY An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality Hervey Cleckley, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.; author of The Caricature of Love and of The Three Faces of Eve (with Corbett H. Thigpen) Fifth Edition: private printing for non-profit educational use EMILY S. CLECKLEY Augusta, Georgia-1988 Fifth
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
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Lisa Appignanesi · 584 pages
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.
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].
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