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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
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4.08 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 242,235 ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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4.13 avg rating — 19,991 ratings
score: 170,
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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4.36 avg rating — 263,868 ratings
score: 168,
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 234,948 ratings
score: 157,
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Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
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4.11 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
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4.13 avg rating — 3,654 ratings
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Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
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3.74 avg rating — 148 ratings
score: 99,
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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4.11 avg rating — 6,359 ratings
score: 98,
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Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics
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4.19 avg rating — 468 ratings
score: 97,
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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
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4.23 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
score: 95,
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Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
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3.85 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
score: 94,
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
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David Leite (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 867 ratings
score: 94,
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The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
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3.77 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
score: 93,
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Manic: A Memoir
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Terri Cheney (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 12,120 ratings
score: 93,
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind
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4.09 avg rating — 4,231 ratings
score: 92,
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 5,198 ratings
score: 92,
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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4.15 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
score: 91,
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The Coconut Oil and Low-Carb Solution for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases: A Guide to Using Diet and a High-Energy Food to Protect and Nourish the Brain
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4.30 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
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3.94 avg rating — 3,195 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.05 avg rating — 6,463 ratings
score: 89,
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
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3.84 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
score: 88,
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Hunger Strike: Starving Amidst Plenty
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3.87 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 87,
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue
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3.69 avg rating — 2,272 ratings
score: 86,
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Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
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3.82 avg rating — 777 ratings
score: 85,
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Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
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3.95 avg rating — 732 ratings
score: 84,
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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
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3.47 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
score: 82,
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 84,777 ratings
score: 81,
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Hysteria: The Biography
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3.61 avg rating — 218 ratings
score: 80,
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
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4.09 avg rating — 412 ratings
score: 79,
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Psychiatry and Its Discontents
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3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 78,
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Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
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Lisa Appignanesi (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 942 ratings
score: 77,
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
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4.17 avg rating — 918 ratings
score: 76,
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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4.21 avg rating — 4,077 ratings
score: 75,
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Women and Madness
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Phyllis Chesler (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 965 ratings
score: 74,
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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3.99 avg rating — 31,163 ratings
score: 71,
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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3.90 avg rating — 35,150 ratings
score: 70,
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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4.39 avg rating — 15,249 ratings
score: 69,
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Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature
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4.17 avg rating — 701 ratings
score: 68,
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Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
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4.09 avg rating — 308 ratings
score: 67,
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
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4.08 avg rating — 4,499 ratings
score: 66,
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(Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health
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4.16 avg rating — 182 ratings
score: 65,
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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4.15 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
score: 64,
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 12,310 ratings
score: 63,
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