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
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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
The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomExistential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomOn Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
"Must Read" Psychology and Therapy Books
201 books — 104 voters
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Over-pathologization of Human Beings
30 books — 39 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Depression and Mental Illness
596 books — 499 voters
The Courage to Heal by Ellen BassThe Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura   DavisThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkLight in Bandaged Places by Liz Kinchen
Resources for Survivors
194 books — 127 voters

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Psychology/ Counseling / Self Help
39 books — 48 voters
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert  WhitakerThe Birth of the Clinic by Michel FoucaultI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldMad in America by Robert  WhitakerThe Creation of Psychopharmacology by David Healy
Critical Psychiatry and Mad Studies
203 books — 50 voters


Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find ...more
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