BOOKS CRITIQUES



Arkowitz, Hal, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017


Boyle, Mary, Lucy Johnstone, Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis (The Straight Talking Introduction series), PCCS Books, 2020

 

Davies, James, Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good, Icon Books Ltd, 2014

 

Davies, James, The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

 

DesMaisons, Kathleen Ph.D., Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity, Simon & Schuster; Revised edition, 2008

 

Earley, Pete, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, Berkley, 2007

 

Foiles, Jonathan, (Mis)diagnosed: how bias distorts our perception of mental health, Belt Publishing, 2021

 

Frances, Allen, M.D., Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 Reprint edition, 2014

 

Gonaver, Wendy, The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880, The University of North Carolina Press; Illustrated edition, 2019

 

Grinker, Roy Richard, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

 

Grossman, Miriam, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, Sentinel; Reprint edition, 2007

 

Guthrie, Robert, Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition), Pearson; 2nd edition, 2003

 

Harrington, Anne, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

 

Inaba, Darryl S., William E. Cohen, Elizabeth von Radics, Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs, 7th Edition, CNS Productions; 7th edition, 2011

 

Insel, Thomas MD, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Isaac, Rael Jean ,Virginia C. Armat, Madness in the Streets : How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill, Treatment Advocacy Center, 2000

 

Jaffe, D.J., Torrey MD, E. Fuller, Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill, Prometheus Books, 2017

 

Kirk, Stuart A., Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs, Transaction Publishers, 2013

 

Kirsch, Irving, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition 2011 

 

Lilienfeld, Scott O. (Editor), Steven Jay Lynn (Editor), Jeffrey M. Lohr (Editor), Carol Tavris (Foreword), Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology, Second Edition, The Guilford Press; Second Edition, 2014

 

Lilienfeld, Scott O., Steven Jay Lynn, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

 

Moncrieff, Joanna,  A straight talking introduction to psychiatric drugs: the truth about how they work and how to come off them, PCCS Books; 2nd edition, 2021

 

Moore, Kate, The Woman They Could Not Silence, Sourcebooks, 2022

 

Paris, Joel, Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, 2023

 

Paris, Joel, Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes, Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2020

 

Paris, Joel, The Use and Misuse of Psychiatric Drugs: An Evidence-Based Critique, Wiley, 2010

 

Payne, Christopher Oliver Sacks, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (MIT Press), The MIT Press, 2009

 

Rosenberg, Kenneth Paul, Bedlam : an intimate journey into America's mental health crisis, Avery, 2019

 

Rosen, Kenneth R., Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs, Little A, 2021

 

Scull, Andrew, Psychiatry and Its Discontents, University of California Press, 2021

 

Segrest, Mab, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum, The New Press, 2020

 

Showalter, Elaine, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980, Time Warner Books UK, 1987

 

Slate, Risdon N., Jacqueline K. Buffington-Vollum, The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System, Second Edition, Carolina Academic Press; Second Edition, 2013

 

Torrey, E. Fuller, American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System, Oxford University Press, 2013

 

Torrey, E. Fuller, Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill, HarperCollins, 1989

 

Torrey, E. Fuller, Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis, Wiley; Revised edition, 1998

 

Torrey, E. Fuller, The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Watters, Ethan, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, Free Press; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Whitaker, Robert, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, Broadway Books, 2011

 

Whitaker, Robert, Lisa. Cosgrove, Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform, Palgrave Macmillan; 2015 edition, 2015

 

Whitaker, Robert, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Basic Books; Second Edition, 2010

 

 


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