Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
By: Lucy Foulkes
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe univer…
Want to Read $ 14.99"There isn’t a clear boundary between the everyday and the pathological."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
"Grief is the price we pay for love, the saying goes; I would add that all forms of psychological distress are the price we pay for being alive. Suffering is part of being human."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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2. The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
By: Julia Shaw
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on … read more
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3. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
4. What I Wish People Knew About Dementia
By: Wendy Mitchell
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What can a diseased brain tell us about being human, living our own lives better and helping those … read more
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5. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more
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6. Family Politics
By: John O'Farrell
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more
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7. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
8. Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World
By: Jenn Granneman
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting look at a long-undervalued yet hugely beneficial personality trait, from the cr… read more
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9. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays
By: Ann Leary
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more
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10. But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
By: Paige Layle
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to … read more
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"We remain hidden, tucked away behind corporations aiming to change us, pushing supplements and instant cures into the hands of desperate parents looking to make our lives better. We're hidden behind …"-Paige Layle, But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
11. Anti-Social: The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
By: Nick Pettigrew
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Has your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a fondness for crack cocain… read more
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"A resident took offence at being woken up at the crack of afternoon by this noise (it was just after 1pm when the incident occurred)."-Nick Pettigrew, Anti-Social: The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
12. 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
13. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry
By: Nathan Filer
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding… read more
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14. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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15. Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
By: Lucy Foulkes
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe univer… read more
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"There isn’t a clear boundary between the everyday and the pathological."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
"Grief is the price we pay for love, the saying goes; I would add that all forms of psychological distress are the price we pay for being alive. Suffering is part of being human."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
16. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more
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"If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time."-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"I wonder if the hypochondriac him or herself is a metaphor, a condensed node of ideas about illness crushed together into one individual. I am pressed between these layers of meaning like a flower pr…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Fairy tales and folklore are full of this moment: a potion to be swallowed that will transform or destroy a life....When life is especially difficult or hard, the notion that just a single action cou…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Illness is a story we tell about ourselves. The narrative is the connective tissue that joins together the symptoms and perceptions and makes sense of them. It's how impenetrable concepts like death …"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
17. Will You Read This, Please?
By: Joanna Cannon
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
12 impactful stories by bestselling writers, based on the real lived experience of people who have … read more
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18. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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19. A Manual for Being Human
By: Sophie Mort
4.09
Format: 320 pages, ebook
‘There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves. … read more
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"Jesteś teraz dorosły. To bardzo ważne, by pamiętać, że niezależnie od tego, co przytrafiło nam się w dzieciństwie, to my decydujemy, jak będzie wyglądała nasza przyszłość. Mimo że zdarzenia z tamtego…"-Sophie Mort, A Manual for Being Human
20. A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
By: Deena Emera
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause― A Brief History of the Female Body… read more
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21. On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry
By: Penelope Campling
4.32
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
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