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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is not non-fiction.

Thanks for the heads up Julie. I will check the book and remove it after verification. I appreciate your help in letting me know. :)

Fiction removed.

Thanks.

Bared to You by Sylvia Day is not a non fiction

Azuriana wrote: "Bared to You by Sylvia Day is not a non fiction"

Thanks for the heads up. Done, removed said book from the list.

Elyn Saks' book The Center cannot Hold is particularly interesting because it compares her first-person experience of the dignity and sovereignty of her hospitalization (for schizophrenia) in the U.K. with the indignities and uses of force she encountered in the U.S.

While they are not directly about hospitalization, these books are must-reads for those who are struggling with trauma/mental illness or know someone who is:
—The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a best-selling, compassionate book by one of the world's top experts in mental illness. The book describes the physiology of trauma, many case studies, and new non-pharmaceutical treatments. Note: the case studies involve some graphic descriptions of atrocities.

—Trauma and Recovery by Dr. Judith Herman is a classic on the history of the treatment of mental illness: how Freud was pressured into retracting his discovery that his female patients were victims of childhood incest (resulting in the cruel psychoanalytic practice of blaming the victim), the use of borderline diagnosis as a pejorative substitute for PTSD, trauma in the military, etc. Note: the Recovery section is out-of-date.

Good fiction can reduce the need for medications and hospitalizations by distracting ill readers from their pain. If you read general fiction, please vote on and/or add suggestions to this list of healing/humorous books: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Aren't I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (#5) and The Secret Scripture (#22) fiction? (I agree with Julie on I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, yet it is still/again on this list)

"A Head Full of Ghosts" by Paul Tremblay is fiction.