PSYCHOLOGY READING LIST
MEMOIRS
Kaysen, Susana. Girl, interrupted.
Nasar, Sylvia. Beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and nobel laureate John Nash.
Leleux, Robert. The memoirs of a beautiful boy.
Polis, Ben. Only a mother could love him : my life and triumph over ADD.
Colas, Emily. Just checking; scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive.
Kephart, Beth. A slant of sun : one child’s courage. (pervasive developmental disorder)
Marion, Robert. The boy who felt no pain : inspiring true stories of sick young children.
Brodey, Denise. The elephant in the playroom : ordinary parents write intimately and honestly
about the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of raising kids with special needs.
Ariel, Cindy, and Robert Naseef. Voices from the spectrum : parents, grandparents, siblings,
people with autism, and professionals share their wisdom.
Simon, Rachel. Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey.
Corman, Catherine. Positively ADD : real success stories to inspire your dreams.
Slater, Lauren. Welcome to my country. (psychiatrist’s autobiography of her work with patients
suffering from mental illness).
Renee. Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl.
Burke, Ross. When the music's over : my journey into schizophrenia.
Snyder, Kurt. Me, myself, and them : a firsthand account of one young person's experience with
Schizophrenia.
Holley, Tara. My mother's keeper : a daughter's memoir of growing up in the shadow of
Schizophrenia.
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel. The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle With Madness.
Bottoms, Greg. Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness.
Steele, Ken. The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope.
Reuther, Rosemary. Many forms of madness : a family's struggle with mental illness and the
mental health system
Vonnegut, Mark. The Eden express. (Schizophrenia).
Schutz, Samantha. I don't want to be crazy : a memoir.
Jamison, Kay. An unquiet mind a memoir of moods and madness. (manic depression).
Ford, Emily. What you must think of me : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with
social anxiety disorder.
Wagner, Pamela Spiro, and Carolyn Spiro. Divided minds : twin sisters and their journey
through Schizophrenia.
Cameron, Marcia. Broken child : a true story of a woman's suffering, survival and triumph over
Multiple Personality Disorder.
Baer, Richard. Switching time : a doctor's harrowing story of treating a woman with 17
personalities.
Chase, Truddi. When rabbit howls. (Multiple Personality Disorder).
Thigpen, Corbett. The three faces of Eve : a true story of multiple personality disorder.
Casey, Joan. The flock : the autobiography of a multiple personality.
Oxnam, Robert. A fractured mind : my life with multiple personality disorder.
Cline, Jean. Silencing the voices : one woman's triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder.
Phillips, Joan. The magic daughter : a memoir of living with Multiple Personality Disorder.
Schreiber, Flora. Sybil : a true story of Multiple Personality Disorder.
White, Tracy. How I made it to eighteen : a mostly true story.
Jamieson, Patrick. Mind race : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with Bipolar
Disorder.
Simon, Lizzie. Detour : my bipolar road trip in 4-D.
Duke, Patty. A brilliant madness : living with manic-depressive illness.
Maurice, Catherine. Let me hear your voice : a family's triumph over autism.
Mukhopadhyay, Tito. The mind tree : a miraculous child breaks the silence of autism.
Prince-Hughes, Dawn, ed. Aquamarine blue : personal stories of college students with autism.
Grandin, Temple. Thinking in pictures : and other reports from my life with autism.
Kaufman, Barry. Son-rise.
Kaufman, Barry. Son-rise : the miracle continues - true story of an autistic child.
Tobe, Keiko. With the light : raising an autistic child.
Szatmari, Peter. A mind apart : understanding children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome.
Zelan, Karen. Between their world and ours : breakthroughs with autistic children.
Tammet, Daniel. Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant.
Williams, Donna. Nobody nowhere : the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic.
Robison, John. Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's
McElwain, Jason. The game of my life : a true story of challenge, triumph, and growing up
autistic.
Cohen, Leah. Train go sorry : inside a deaf world.
Sacks, Oliver. Seeing voices : a journey into the land of the deaf.
Berube, Michael. Life as we know it : a father, a family, and an exceptional child. (Down’s
Syndrome).
Beck, Martha. Expecting Adam : a true story of birth, rebirth, and everyday magic. (Down’s
Syndrome).
Melendez, Tony. A gift of hope : the Tony Melendez story. (thalidomine baby who became a
successful musician).
Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the gorilla nation : my journey through autism.
Dorris, Michael. The broken cord : a family's ongoing struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Irwin, Cait. Monochrome days : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with
depression.
Finneran, Kathleen. The tender land. (True story of a family who lost a teenage son to suicide).
Runyon, Brent. The burn journals (teen suicide attempt and subsequent treatment).
Heckler, Richard. Waking up, alive : the descent, the suicide attempt, and the return to life.
Styron, William. Darkness visible : a memoir of madness.
Griffith, Gail. Will's choice : a suicidal teen, a desperate mother, and a chronicle of recovery.
Mack, John. Vivienne : the life and suicide of an adolescent girl.
NON-FICTION (not memoirs)
Subjects include : History of Psychology, Brain research, disorders and therapy, sleep/dream research, gender
research, psychological/sociological study of race, personality, motivation and emotion, and more.
Hock, Roger. Forty studies that changed psychology.
Shaffer, Lary. Research stories for introductory psychology.
Slater, Lauren. Opening Skinner’s box : great psychological experiments of the 20th century.
Crews, Frederick, ed. Unauthorized Freud : doubters confront a legend.
Barnett, Rosalind. Same difference: how gender myths are hurting our relationships, our
children, and our jobs.
Abrahams, George. Boy v. girl? : how gender shapes who we are, what we want, and how
we get along.
Rodriguez, Ana. A day in the life of the brain.
Fine, Cordelia. A mind of its own : how your brain distorts and deceives.
Small, Gary, and Gigi Vorgan. Surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind.
Carr, Nicholas. The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains.
Noe, Alva. Out of our heads : why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the
biology of consciousness.
Restak, Richard. The naked brain : how the emerging neurosociety is changing how we live,
work, and love.
Abraham, Carolyn. Possessing genius: the bizarre odyssey of Einstein’s brain.
Phillips, Sherre. The teen brain.
Strauch, Barbara. The primal brain; what the new discoveries about the teenage brain tell us
about our kids.
Sachs, Oliver. An anthropologist on Mars. (seven case studies of patients with neurological
disorders).
Sachs, Oliver. The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales : case histories of
patients with neurological disorders.
Linde, Paul. Danger to self: on the front line with an ER psychiatrist.
Hinshaw, Stephen. Breaking the silence: mental health professionals disclose their personal
and family experiences of mental illness.
Karp, David. Voices from the inside : readings on the experiences of mental illness
Burch, Susan. Unspeakable : the true story of Junius Wilson.
(Biography of a deaf African-American man
born in the Jim Crow South who had no mental illness, yet was incarcerated in a North Carolina state hospital for the insane for
nearly all of his life).
Brizendine, Louann. The female brain.
Eliot, Lise. Pink brain, blue brain : how small differences grow into troublesome gaps--and what
we can do about it.
Fine, Cordelia. Delusions of gender : how our minds, society, and neurosexism create
difference.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers : the story of success.
Rimm, Sylvia. Growing up too fast : the Rimm Report on the secret world of America’s middle
schoolers.
Robbins, Alexandra. The overachievers : the secret lives of driven kids.
Levine, Madeline. The price of privilege : how parental pressure and material advantage are
creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids.
Elkind, David. The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier,
healthier children.
Lamb, Sharon, and Lyn Mikel Brown. Packaging girlhood : rescuing our daughters from
marketers' schemes
Simmons, Rachel. Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls.
Van Ausdale, Debra. The first R : how children learn race and racism.
Harrison, Guy. Race and reality : what everyone should know about our biological diversity.
Ben Jalloun, Tahar. Racism explained to my daughter.
Barkley, Charles. Who’s afraid of a large black man? (Barkley set out to interview people who are influential
in their fields about how race affects their lives and their work).
Kendall, Frances. Understanding white privilege : creating pathways to authentic relationships
across race.
Jensen, Robert. The heart of whiteness: confronting race, racism, and white privilege.
Wise, Tim. White like me : reflections on race from a privileged son.
Friedman, Joan. Emotionally healthy twins : a new philosophy for parenting two unique
children.
Walton, Stuart. A natural history of human emotions.
Covey, Stephen. The 8th habit : from effectiveness to greatness.
Nettle, Daniel. Personality : what makes you the way you are.
Harris, Judith. No two alike : human nature and human individuality.
Reiss, Steven. The normal personality : a new way of thinking about people.
Schwartz, Barry. The paradox of choice : why more is less.
Twenge, Jean. The narcissism epidemic : living in the age of entitlement.
Mansfield, Harvey. Manliness.
Brown, Lyn Mikel. Packaging boyhood : saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other
media stereotypes.
Diamond, Michael. My father before me : how fathers and sons influence each other throughout
their lives.
Hefner, Keith, ed. Boys to men : teens write about becoming a man.
Walker, Rebecca. What makes a man : 22 writers imagine the future.
Kasser, Tim, and Allan Kanner, eds. Psychology and consumer culture : the struggle for a good
life in a materialistic world
Schenck, Carlos. Sleep : the mysteries, the problems, and the solutions.
Iacoboni, Marco. Mirroring people : the new science of how we connect with others
Rapoport, Judith. The boy who couldn’t stop washing : the experience and treatment of
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder.
Strong, Marilee. A bright red scream : self-mutilation and the language of pain.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink : the power of thinking without thinking.
Louv, Richard. Last child in the woods : saving our children from Nature-deficit Disorder.
Machioan, Lisa. The disappearing girl : learning the language of teenage depression.
Clark, Jerusha. Inside a cutter’s mind.
Karp, David. Is it me or my meds? : living with antidepressants.
Tone, Andrea. The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria. Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture.
Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a jar : the making of America’s beauty culture.
Hoffman, John, and Susan Froemke, eds. Addiction; why can’t they just stop – new knowledge,
new treatments, new hope.
Sargent, Ted. The dance of molecules : how nanotechnology is changing our lives.
Moody, Glyn. Digital code of life : how bioinformatics is revolutionizing Science, Medicine,
and Business.
Hall, J. Storrs. Nanofuture : what’s next for nanotechnology?
Kirkpatrick, David. The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the
world.
Kiesbye, Stefan, ed. Are social networking sites harmful? (a collection of essays).
Partridge, Kenneth, ed. Social networking. (a collection of articles/essays).
Moskowitz, Robert. Lost in the mirror : an inside look at borderline personality disorder.
Golden, Janet. Message in a bottle : the making of fetal alcohol syndrome.