20 best-selling audiobook books like Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel MD

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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

By: Thomas Insel MD

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care syst…

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1. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

By: Ron Powers

3.87

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"

-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"

-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"

-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

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2. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

By: David M. Oshinsky

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospit… read more

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  • audiobook
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried

3. A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

By: Patrick J. Kennedy , Stephen Fried

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert  Whitaker

4. Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

By: Robert Whitaker

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics i… read more

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  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science

5. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

By: David M. Oshinsky

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Prisons in the deep South, with chain gangs, shotguns, and bloodhounds, have been immortalized in m… read more

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6. Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

By: Ogi Ogas , Jeffrey A. Lieberman

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of t… read more

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7. Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed

By: Laurie Kilmartin

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

read more

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8. Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

By: Christine Montross

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak … read more

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9. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

By: John M. Barry

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connect… read more

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10. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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13. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

14. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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16. The Hilarious World of Depression

By: John Moe

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World o… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

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17. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

18. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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19. Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

By: Thomas Insel MD

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care syst… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Insel MD's Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health book and Thomas Insel MD's Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

  • science
  • health care
  • health
  • counselling
  • medicine
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

20. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • mental health
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

By: Andrew Scull

4.10

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once calle… read more

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  • science
  • medicine
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

22. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

By: Meghan O'Rourke

4.03

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

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23. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."

-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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24. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

25. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard  Grinker

26. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Cover of Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

27. Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis

By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental health care crisis in the … read more

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  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention by Jeffrey A. Lieberman

28. Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman

4.29

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

“The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —S… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn

29. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri

30. Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

By: Dina Nayeri

3.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”—Viet Than… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients by Robert  Pearl

31. Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients

By: Robert Pearl

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them. Hardly any… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

26 must-read nonfiction books like Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel MD

Transform Your Habits

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Ron Powers

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

David M. Oshinsky

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

Patrick J. Kennedy , Stephen Fried

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

Robert Whitaker

4.04

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20 Top audiobook books like Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Transform Your Habits

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Elizabeth Ford

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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