Women and Mental Illness
Any books --- fiction, memoir, biography, history or other nonfiction --- that deal with mental illness, the mental-health profession or academic psychology from a feminist/woman-centered perspective.
1 The Bell Jar
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 199,425 ratings
2 Girl, Interrupted
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 68,541 ratings
3 The Yellow Wallpaper and Ot...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 34,709 ratings
4 Prozac Nation
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3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 26,511 ratings
5 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir o...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19,344 ratings
6 The Virgin Suicides
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 88,205 ratings
7 Sybil: The Classic True Sto...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 38,807 ratings
8 White Oleander
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 134,915 ratings
9 I Never Promised You a Rose...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 13,748 ratings
10 Musical Chairs
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 214 ratings
11 She's Come Undone
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 154,624 ratings
12 Jane Eyre
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 647,907 ratings
13 Mrs. Dalloway
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 74,296 ratings
14 Macbeth
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 248,341 ratings
15 My Alien Self: My Journey B...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
16 STRANGE LOVE: How Pro Wrest...
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4.65 of 5 stars 4.65 avg rating — 46 ratings
17 Swimming Upstream
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
18 The Hours
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 62,811 ratings
19 Cut
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 22,839 ratings
20 Looking for Alaska
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 149,770 ratings
21 Madness: A Bipolar Life
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 4,501 ratings
22 Hamlet
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 275,536 ratings
23 Go Ask Alice
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 103,793 ratings
24 Speak
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 148,710 ratings
25 The Girl with the Dragon Ta...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 781,656 ratings
26 Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexi...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,784 ratings
27 The Center Cannot Hold: My ...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
28 The Turn of the Screw
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 27,347 ratings
29 Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 135 ratings
30 Still Alice
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 74,905 ratings
31 The Woman in White
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 45,241 ratings
32 Running with Scissors
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 172,595 ratings
33 The Unabridged Journals of ...
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 6,640 ratings
34 We Have Always Lived in the...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 12,433 ratings
35 Wintergirls
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 36,337 ratings
36 The Haunting of Hill House
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 22,368 ratings
37 Veronika Decides to Die
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 59,005 ratings
38 Woman on the Edge of Time
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
39 Surfacing
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 9,592 ratings
40 The Glass Menagerie
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 46,240 ratings
41 Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 21,030 ratings
42 A Streetcar Named Desire
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 97,533 ratings
43 The Asylum for Wayward Vict...
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4.65 of 5 stars 4.65 avg rating — 572 ratings
44 Thirteen Reasons Why
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 145,062 ratings
45 Lisa, Bright and Dark
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
46 Willow
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 14,050 ratings
47 Get Me Out of Here: My Reco...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
48 The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 50,596 ratings
49 Save Me The Waltz
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 685 ratings
50 Lucky
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 49,237 ratings
51 Live Through This: On Creat...
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 321 ratings
52 Manic: A Memoir
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
53 The Kingdom of Childhood
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
54 The Best Little Girl in the...
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
55 Devil in the Details: Scene...
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3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 2,509 ratings
56 The Gargoyle
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 22,056 ratings
57 Loud in the House of Myself...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 907 ratings
58 The Awakening
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 69,208 ratings
59 Les Pensees Dangereuses
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4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
60 Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 814 ratings
61 And I Don't Want to Live Th...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
61 Brilliant Madness: Living w...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 553 ratings
63 Voluntary Madness: My Year ...
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
63 Will There Really Be a Morn...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 433 ratings
65 The Last Time I Wore a Dress
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
66 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's ...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 245,638 ratings
67 The Vanishing Act of Esme L...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 10,086 ratings
68 The Edible Woman
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
69 Wishful Drinking
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 10,421 ratings
70 The Quiet Room: A Journey O...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
71 Faces in the Water
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 454 ratings
72 Sickened: The Memoir of a M...
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,728 ratings
72 Identical
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 22,620 ratings
74 For Her Own Good: Two Centu...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 791 ratings
75 Pros of Prozac: A Faith-bas...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
76 Finding Alice
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 932 ratings
77 When Rabbit Howls
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 7,695 ratings
78 The Glass Castle
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 306,159 ratings
79 Hurry Down Sunshine
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
80 An Angel At My Table
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 504 ratings
81 The Loony-Bin Trip
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3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 162 ratings
82 Ten Days in a Mad-House
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 727 ratings
83 The Female Malady: Women, M...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 194 ratings
84 The Prince of Tides
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 79,115 ratings
85 The Wayward Gifted - Broken...
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4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
86 The Third Sunrise: A Memoir...
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4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
87 The Buddha and the Borderli...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 566 ratings
88 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 614 ratings
89 Switching Time: A Doctor's ...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
90 A Shining Affliction: A Sto...
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 517 ratings
90 Erie County
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
92 Down Came the Rain: My Jour...
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
93 Scars
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 3,413 ratings
94 The Madwoman in the Attic: ...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
95 Medea
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 21,082 ratings
96 Good Morning, Midnight
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
97 The Yellow Wallpaper
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 14,438 ratings
98 Complaints and Disorders: T...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings
99 Skin Game
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
99 A Legacy of Madness: Recove...
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings
402 books · 910 voters · list created October 7th, 2008 by Lindsay (votes) .
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 Carol jinx~☆~ Why do you think I know so much about women and madness...hmmm huh?


message 2: by Ruth (new)

Ruth Mancini Any books that deal with a much misunderstood and stigmatised subject get my vote, but since I'm only allowed to choose one...


 Carol jinx~☆~ I think you can make a list, at least that's what I did.


message 4: by Susanna (new)

Susanna Ruth wrote: "Any books that deal with a much misunderstood and stigmatised subject get my vote, but since I'm only allowed to choose one..."

Why would you only be able to choose one?

If there are books not on it you'd like to vote for, that's pretty easy. You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes." It'll give you a choice of performing a general search, or of adding books from your own shelves.


message 5: by Selvaraj (new)

Selvaraj i believe that the list of boos would be more useful


message 6: by Ruth (new)

Ruth Mancini Ah, my mistake. I didn't realise I had more than one vote!


message 7: by Ruth (new)

Ruth Mancini Thanks Susanna, that was really helpful.


message 8: by Susanna (last edited Apr 24, 2013 08:28pm) (new)

Susanna No problem - I'm glad it was helpful.


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