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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Best Mentally Ill Characters
268 books — 264 voters
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund FreudThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund FreudTotem and Taboo by Sigmund FreudBeyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud
Freud and Psychoanalysis
37 books — 42 voters

What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveExistential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomThe Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomThe Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. Martz
Best psychotherapy / psychology books
50 books — 35 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklOn Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersMotivational Interviewing by William R. MillerMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungDBT Skills Training by Marsha M. Linehan
Therapist's reading list
74 books — 30 voters

Are You My Mother? by Alison BechdelThe Manticore by Robertson DaviesOrigami Bridges by Diane AckermanLo scrutatore d'anime. Un romanzo psicoanalitico by Georg GroddeckGateway by Frederik Pohl
Psychoanalysis in non-technical books (memoirs, novels, short stories, etc.)
18 books — 12 voters
How to Read Lacan by Slavoj ŽižekÉcrits by Jacques LacanWhat Lacan Said About Women by Colette SolerA Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce FinkEssays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46 by C.G. Jung
Psychoanalysis and Lacan
31 books — 11 voters

Freud by D. Harlan WilsonFreud by Peter GayThe Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark EdmundsonFreud. En su tiempo y en el nuestro by Élisabeth RoudinescoFreud & Jung by Anthony Stevens
Best Freud Biographies
17 books — 10 voters
The Lacanian Subject by Bruce FinkWhat IS Sex? by Alenka ZupančičIntroduction to the Reading of Hegel by Alexandre KojèveA Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce FinkSubjectivity and Otherness by Lorenzo Chiesa
Lacanian Studies
44 books — 6 voters

The Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen WeberКонституционный строй в России. by Андрей ПолеевEssays and Letters. by Andrej PoleevBerlin - Zoologischer Garten by Andrej PoleevStrange case. by Andrej Poleev
Enzymes book
17 books — 5 voters
The Death Club by Caroline PeckhamPsycho-Graphology by Eugene Szekeres BaggerHomicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill WattersonF*ckboy Psychos by C.M. StunichThe Biology of Trauma by Aimie Apigian MD
"Psycho"
150 books — 5 voters

Anti-Oedipus by Gilles DeleuzeCivilization and its Discontents by Sigmund FreudThe Sane Society by Erich FrommEros and Civilization by Herbert MarcuseMarx, Freud, Einstein by Corinne Maier
Freudo-Marxism and Critical Psychology
31 books — 5 voters
The Murder of Professor Schlick by David EdmondsThe Crossroads of Civilization by Angus RobertsonAsperger's Children by Edith ShefferSaving Freud by Andrew NagorskiThe Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Vienna: History of Ideas
21 books — 5 voters

Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. ChestertonTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsAll Things Considered by G.K. ChestertonThe Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Worthwhile Reads
4 books — 2 voters
The Brain and the Inner World by Mark SolmsThe Brain that Changes Itself by Norman DoidgeConsciousness and the Brain by Stanislas DehaeneSelf Comes to Mind by António DamásioIn the Mind Fields by Casey Schwartz
Neuropsychoanalysis 101
6 books — 2 voters

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori GottliebMaking Room for Madness in Mental Health by Marcus EvansThe Christopher Bollas Reader by Christopher BollasOn Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by PhillipsBraving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
books every therapist should read!
18 books — 2 voters
Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies by Jeremy D. SafranSeeing Through Tears by Judith Kay NelsonThree Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund FreudThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. JungAn Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis by Charles Brenner
Psychodynamics
17 books — 1 voter

Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and... by Michael SperberThe Defeat of Baudelaire by René LaforgueLabyrinth by Gaetano CipollaSexual Analysis of Dickens' Props by Arthur W. BrownA Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body by Dinora Pines
Taco Analysis
100 books — 1 voter
The Writer and Psychoanalysis by Edmund Bergler
The Writer and Psychoanalysis
1 book — 1 voter

Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya HartmanSick Woman Theory by Johanna HedvaMeeting the Universe Halfway by Karen BaradQueer by Meg-John BarkerExile and Pride by Eli Clare
Whitney's Heaven: On Gender, Queerness, and Mothers
36 books — 1 voter
Metabletica of leer der veranderingen by Jan Hendrik Van Den BergKleine psychiatrie by Jan Hendrik Van Den BergOne Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology by Giovanni StanghelliniThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanPsychiatrie of drift. Over macht, ethiek en verzet by Evi Verbeke
Psychiatry - Literature
56 books — 1 voter

Psychology Without Spirit by Samuel Bendeck SotillosThe Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.Dismantling Freud by Samuel Bendeck SotillosWhy Freud Was Wrong by Richard WebsterFreud by Frederick Crews
Books critical of Freud
14 books — 1 voter

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