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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"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
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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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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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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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,
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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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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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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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"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
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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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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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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"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
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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"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
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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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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"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
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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- audiobook
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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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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"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
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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"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
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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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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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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". . . 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
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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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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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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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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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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