Books about People with Mental Illness
Earley, Pete
Greenberg, Michael
Haddon, Mark
Harris, Tracy
Jamison, Kay R.
Jamison, Kay R.
Lopez, Steve
Lovelace, David
Lyden, Jacki
Miklowitz, David
Simon, Lizzie
Solomon, Andrew
Steele, Ken
Crazy: a Father’s Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Music of Madness
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
An Unquiet Mind
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of
Music
Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir
The Bipolar Disorder Survivor Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know
Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
The Noonday Demon: an Atlas of Depression
The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic's Journey from Madness to Hope
Styron, William
Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness
Walls, Jeanette
Woolis, Rebecca
The Glass Castle: a Memoir
When Someone You Love has a Mental Illness
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the… by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the… by Steve Lopez
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel… by Sylvia Nasar
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders… by American
Psychological Association
Running With Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of… by Marilee Strong
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical… by Oliver Sacks
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age… by Michel Foucault
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
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Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory
The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression by Nell Casey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring… by Robert
Whitaker
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President… by Joshua Wolf
Shenk
Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
When Rabbit Howls by The Troops for Truddi Chase
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health… by Pete Earley
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig
Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer
Detour : My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D by Lizzie Simon
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: A Memoir by Jacki Lyden
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook
The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds,… by Robert Burton
Against Depression by Peter D. Kramer
Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and… by Judith L. Rapoport
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness by Patty Duke
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block,… by Alice Weaver
Flaherty
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Alvarez
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and… by Elyse Schein
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual by E. Fuller Torrey
9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill by Michael Winerip
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of… by Thomas S. Szasz
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients… by Erving Goffman
Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater
And I Don't Want to Live This Life by Deborah Spungen
The female malady: women, madness and English culture… by Elaine Showalter
The Last Time I Wore A Dress by Daphne Scholinski
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality… by Rachel
Reiland
Skin Game: A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell
I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline… by Jerold J.
Kreisman
Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford
His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steel
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths… by Robert D.
Hare
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns
Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Peril and the… by Torey L. Hayden
Borderlines: A Memoir by Caroline Kraus
Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison
Janet Frame : the complete autobiography by Janet Frame
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition by Edmund J. Bourne
Just Checking by Emily Colas
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater
Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My… by Patrick Tracey
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Collected Papers… by Sigmund Freud
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath by Paul Alexander
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of… by Marguerite
Sechehaye
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When… by Paul T. Mason
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your… by David J. Miklowitz
Mad Mary Lamb by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple by Cameron West
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns
Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression by L. Wolpert
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens,… by Kate Bornstein
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Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke by Patty Duke
Nobody Nowhere: the Extraordinary Autobiography of an… by Donna Williams
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum… by Brooke Shields
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I'm Eve by Chris Costner Sizemore
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs
Stick Figure by Lori Gottlieb
Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a… by Richard Baer
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy… by Irvin D. Yalom
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
Food and Loathing: A Lament by Betsy Lerner
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went… by Sonya Sones
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose,… by Sylvia Plath
The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression by Tracy Thompson
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
The Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett
Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions by Rick Moody
Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic… by Jack El-Hai
Murphy's Boy by Torey L. Hayden
From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of… by Joyce Egginton
Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard von Krafft-Ebing
A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis by Diane Ackerman
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness (Modern Library… by Rebecca
Shannonhouse
The Tiger's Child by Torey L. Hayden
Just Another Kid by Torey L. Hayden
Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp
Somebody Else's Kids by Torey L. Hayden
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes… by Katrina Firlik
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John
Fleischman
Journey Into Darkness by John E. Douglas
Med Head by James Patterson
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a… by Torey L. Hayden
Journals by Kurt Cobain
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Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
One Child by Torey L. Hayden
The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy
Hope's Boy: A Memoir by Andrew Bridge
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis by David M. Friedman
Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital… by Darby Penney
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy
The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery by Michelle Stacey
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the… by Marion Meade
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors… by Lisa
Appignanesi
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and… by Martha Beck
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of… by Lauren Slater
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick Macdonald
Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother,… by Linda Gray
Sexton
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris
Everything You Know is Wrong by Russ Kick
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, with a New… by Hilde Bruch
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division by Deborah Curtis
The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy by Emily Fox Gordon
On the Edge of Darkness by Kathy Cronkite
50 Facts That Should Change the World by Jessica Williams
Edie: American Girl by Jean Babette Stein
A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and… by Robert Whitaker
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient… by Jonathan Haidt
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His… by David Sheff
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles… by V. S.
Ramachandran
The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P.
Seligman
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
I Don't Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls,… by Jeffrey L. Geller
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps (P.S.) by Philip Weiss
Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer… by Roger
Highfield
The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in… by Pema Chödrön
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and… by Paul
Hoffman
Genie: a Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer
Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison by Jack Henry Abbott
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a… by Dave Pelzer
The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict by William Leith
Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose… by Mary Sheedy
Kurcinka
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan
The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your… by Sark
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the… by Sandra M. Gilbert
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue by Jane Pauley
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough… by Daniel G. Amen
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Phd PrinceHughes
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and… by Melody Beattie
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by Kim Chernin
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survival by Victoria Leatham
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss
Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey
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The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival : A… by Jay Neugeboren
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children by Michael Newton
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and… by Jon Kabat-Zinn
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through… by Pamela Spiro
Wagner
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism,… by Lori Leibovich
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism by Donna
Williams
Healing and the Mind by Bill Moyers
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to… by Temple Grandin
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness Explained by Richard P. Bentall