Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.

Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with criteria listed in diagnostic manuals such as the widely used Diagnostic and Statistica
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El cuerpo de Cristo
The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
A Matter of Death and Life
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
The Urge: Our History of Addiction
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Man's Search for Meaning
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
The Bell Jar
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Girl, Interrupted
Kick by C.D. ReissGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Separate Things by Ashley Marie BerryMade You Up by Francesca ZappiaAnxiety by Danny WinterUprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Girl with the Black and Blue Doll by Linda Summersea
Books That Stigmatize Mental Illness
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The Corona Protocol Prescriber's Guide by Dr. Paul D Corona MDThe Secret Method for Growing Younger by Ellen  Wood
Medical Guides to Wellness
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1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Manchurian Candidate by Richard CondonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Mind Control Fiction
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Mordecai Richler
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. ...more
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Kevin Alan Lee
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Kevin Alan Lee, The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View

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