The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

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

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

American Psychiatric Association · 943 pages

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kay Redfield Jamison · 432 pages

The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up

Robert Burton · 1,064 pages

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

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

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Gary Greenberg · 403 pages

An exposé of the psychiatric profession's bible from a leading psychotherapist, "The Book of Woe "reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented -- and why increasing numbers of therapy patients are being declared mentally ill.

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

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.

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You

Richard O'Connor · 366 pages

Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O'Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with const

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.

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 Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

Mark Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn · 273 pages

Drawing on the collective wisdom of four mindfulness experts, this volume offers effective relief from the most prevalent psychological disorder: clinical depression.

A Mind of Your Own: What Women Can Do About Depression That Big Pharma Can't

Kelly Brogan · 337 pages

Depression is not a disease, it is a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use, with one in four women starting their day with medication. These drugs have become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress. But the truth is, what women really need can't be found at a pharmacy. According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antid

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

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"--

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

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

Anna Mehler Paperny · 352 pages

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

Suzanne O'Sullivan · 352 pages

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.

From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs

Andrew Weil, Winifred Rosen · 304 pages

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.

The Feeling Good Handbook

David D. Burns · 658 pages

How to use Cognitive Therapy to overcome a wide variety of mood problems. Depression, Frustration, Panic, Chronic Worry, Phobias. Personal Relationship Problems. Marital Conflict, Difficulty at Work.

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

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