Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
By: Stephen P. Hinshaw
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
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1. Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author of Love's Executioner and The Gift of Therapy, psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Se c'è una via verso il Meglio, essa necessita di uno sguardo intenso al Peggio."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Nu numai ca fictiunea isi are propriul adevar, dar orice povestire, oricat de „adevarata"-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Sometimes I felt like I'd just drift off into oblivion if it weren't for your hand anchoring me to my life."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
"Confruntarea cu moartea iminenta poate sa propulseze omul in intelepciune si la o noua profunzime a existentei."-Irvin D. Yalom, Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
2. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
By: Elyn R. Saks
4.31
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
3. Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
By: Stephen P. Hinshaw
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madnessis one of the best books I've read about the cost of stig… read more
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- biography
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
4. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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5. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
By: Temple Grandin
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock… read more
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6. The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness T… read more
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7. Letters to a Young Therapist
By: Mary Pipher
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture," Reviving Ophelia,… read more
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9. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
By: Ellen Forney
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more
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10. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
11. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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12. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
13. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
14. 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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- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"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
15. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
16. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
17. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
18. 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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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
19. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- psychology
- mental health
20. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
By: Amy Schneider
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
21. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- health
22. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories
By: J.T. LeRoy
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
National BestsellerWith a new foreword by Jeff FeuerzeigA timely reissue of the extraordinary stori… read more
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23. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
24. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Cassie Chambers
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
25. Small Fry: A Memoir
By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
3.80
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br… read more
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- biography
- memoir
26. Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
By: Eric Barker
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER From the author of the Wall Street Journal … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"To Aristotle, friends “are disposed toward each other as they are disposed to themselves: a friend is another self."-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Edith Wharton in the 1800s? “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not as a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self."-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that when you survey people in the moment, their happiness levels are highest while with friends... To be fair, research by Beverley Fair shows that we're the…"-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
"Without institutional obligations, the upkeep of friendships require must be very deliberate... However, the weakness of friendship is also the source of its immeasurable strength. Why do true friend…"-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
27. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
28. The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
By: Lola Phoenix
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Embarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
29. Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani
4.58
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren’t "sick enough" to merit treatment, d… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
30. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
31. It Is Wood, It Is Stone
By: Gabriella Burnham
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Pa… read more
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