Mental Health
Here you will find books on the subject of mental health. Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Psychiatric Illness in Women
As Nancy Andreasen notes in the foreward to Psychiatric Illness in Women, historically research into the treatment or natural history of diseases…
The Early Stages of Schizophrenia
I “First you tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em; then you tell ‘em; and then you tell ‘em what you told ‘em.&…
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
My mouth watered when I saw the The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (4th Edition). …
Schizophrenia Revealed
I As a curve approaches closer and closer to its mathematical asymptote but never quite reaches it, so the human mind has approached complete und…
Violence and Mental Disorder
On the positive side, this book packs a huge amount into its 180 pages, and there is no obvious alternative text. It is essentially an academic literatur…
Psychological Dimensions of the Self
The book is intended as a comprehensive review of influential psychological data about the self, and in particular about gender and cultural differences…
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Cultures of Neurasthenia
This is one of the last books produced by the late and very lamented Roy Porter, perhaps the most eminent scholar of his generation in the history of me…
The Invisible Plague
This book sets out to prove that an epidemic of insanity has taken place over recent centuries. It argues that a "plague of brain dysfunction"…
Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders
Allen offers a comprehensive treatise of the traumatic experience and its impact on human psyche and behavior. He examines the nature of trauma in clini…
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Social Cognition and Schizophrenia
In this collection of essays on the social cognitive aspects of research and therapy in schizophrenia, the editors aim to persuade the reader that a bett…
A War of Nerves
This is a very fine book about a very important subject. In some respects it can be seen as charting the journey from shell-shock to Post-traumatic Stres…
Living with Anxiety
Living with Anxiety is a self-therapy book for people living with anxiety issues. The first three chapters carefully define anxiety, distinguish it f…
Surviving Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is viewed as a four-letter word, something that shouldn’t be discussed in polite society or around the dinner table. It is a word fear…
Console and Classify
I am pleased that the University of Chicago Press has reissued this very interesting book, with a new afterward by the author. The book raises many quest…
The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry
This mammoth book (xxvii+1762 pages, and a CD-ROM version of DSM-IV) summarizes the current state of psychiatry. It has five sections:…
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Mothers Who Kill Their Children
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" by Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman…
The Burden of Sympathy
Writing about mental illness in such a way that satisfies those who deal with it on a regular basis is a rather difficult task. It is hard to know…
Street Crazy
As soon as I noted Dr. Stephen Seager’s comment that mental illness is in no way "psychological" I switched on my bias-meter, alert for signs of p…
Your Miracle Brain
This book challenges both our conception of the brain and our ways of life. Jean Carper who is the author of the best selling…
Voices of Madness
This volume, which reproduces four pamphlets from the seventeenth and eighteenth century concerning madness and its treatment, represents a wonderful additi…
Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender
A reading of the first chapter of this book, Educational Aspects of Forensic Nursing, stringently written by Lawrence A. Whyte almost persuades that the dis…
In Others’ Eyes
Gunter Harry Seidler’s In Others’ Eyes: An Analysis of Shame is significant in its diachronic and clinical capacities, prevailing on his reader a (re…
How to Become a Schizophrenic
If you have any opinion whatsoever on the subject of schizophrenia, then this book is to be strongly recommended. Written by a schizophrenic, I hesitate to…
Media Madness
The science of psychology is abundant with well-developed theories that ascribe great importance to social influences and consider development as mainly cul…
Telling Is Risky Business
The first thing to remark on is the amount of interest people have shown since I have been carrying this around with me. Consumers have indicated they would…