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…
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1. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
By: Elizabeth Ford
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a re… read more
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- science
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- psychology
- mental health
2. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.39
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more
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"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
4. Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
By: None
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer's office complaining of … read more
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5. 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
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- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- science
6. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
By: Ethan Watters
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of e… read more
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7. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
By: Irving Kirsch
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch k… read more
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8. Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission
By: Marshall Shelley , Amy Simpson
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics) Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal B… read more
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9. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
By: Andrew Solomon
3.00
Format: None pages,
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexpe… read more
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10. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
By: Robert Whitaker , Darby Penney , Peter Stastny , None
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of… read more
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11. Auerhaus
By: Bov Bjerg
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Sechs Freunde und ein Versprechen: Ihr Leben soll nicht in Ordnern mit der Aufschrift Birth - Schoo… read more
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12. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
By: Sharon Moalem , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a dea… read more
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13. Notes on Nationalism
By: George Orwell
4.01
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more
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"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
14. Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters
By: Carmen Joy Imes
4.53
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Biblical Foundations Award Finalist Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament―especially the Ol… read more
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- nonfiction
"The law envisions a different kind of life, characterized by self-discipline and self-giving love. Imagine a community where every member actively worked to love and protect their neighbor!"-Carmen Joy Imes, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters
15. Attack Warning Red!
By: Julie McDowall
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more
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- history
16. 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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- science
17. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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18. The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love
By: Vienna Pharaon
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Phara… read more
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19. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
By: Lily Bailey
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more
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"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
20. 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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21. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
By: Amanda Ripley
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s b… read more
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