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📚 Mad Studies

Critical academic and activist perspectives that challenge psychiatric authority and reframe madness as a social, political, and cultural phenomenon.
We've Been Too Patient
by L.D. Green • 2019
Psychiatry blames brain chemistry. Survivors argue the model is the wound.
4.15
202
🏛️ Anti-Psychiatry🏳️ Mad Pride🤝 Peer Support
We've Been Too Patient Summary
We've Been Too Patient 93%
Psychiatry blames brain chemistry. Survivors argue the model is the wound.
by L.D. Green 2019
4.15
202 ratings
🏛️ Anti-Psychiatry🏳️ Mad Pride🤝 Peer Support
Mad, Bad, and Sad
by Lisa Appignanesi • 2007
Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.
3.70
957
🌀 Women And Madness🏛️ History Of Psychiatry📜 Feminist History
Mad, Bad, and Sad Summary
Mad, Bad, and Sad 91%
Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.
by Lisa Appignanesi 2007
3.70
957 ratings
🌀 Women And Madness🏛️ History Of Psychiatry📜 Feminist History
The Meaning of Madness
by Neel Burton • 2008
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
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275
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Meaning of Madness Summary
The Meaning of Madness 90%
Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.
by Neel Burton 2008
3.97
275 ratings
💊 Critical Psychiatry🌌 Existential Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
by Nathan Filer • 2019
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
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3k+
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health 90%
A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.
by Nathan Filer 2019
4.28
3k+ ratings
🔍 Psychiatric Critique💔 Trauma And Psychosis🏘️ Social Determinants
Desperate Remedies
by Andrew Scull • 2022
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
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448
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Desperate Remedies Summary
Desperate Remedies 90%
For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.
by Andrew Scull 2022
4.09
448 ratings
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader • 2011
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
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531
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
What Is Madness? Summary
What Is Madness? 90%
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
by Darian Leader 2011
4.14
531 ratings
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
The Center Cannot Hold
by Elyn R. Saks • 2007
Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.
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23k+
📖 Psychosis Memoirs🧠 Chronic Mental Illness🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition
The Center Cannot Hold Summary
The Center Cannot Hold 90%
Restraints, psychosis, forced medication. Then a Yale law degree and tenure, against all odds.
by Elyn R. Saks 2007
4.33
23k+ ratings
📖 Psychosis Memoirs🧠 Chronic Mental Illness🛋️ Psychoanalytic Tradition
Empire of Normality
by Robert Chapman • 2023
The line between healthy and broken minds was drawn by factory logic and market demands.
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1k+
🧠 Neurodiversity Politics♿ Social Model Of Disability🧬 History Of Eugenics
Empire of Normality Summary
Empire of Normality 90%
The line between healthy and broken minds was drawn by factory logic and market demands.
by Robert Chapman 2023
4.27
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neurodiversity Politics♿ Social Model Of Disability🧬 History Of Eugenics
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv • 2022
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
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15k+
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
Strangers to Ourselves Summary
Strangers to Ourselves 90%
A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.
by Rachel Aviv 2022
4.10
15k+ ratings
🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis🌍 Cultural Psychiatry📖 Medical Narratives
The Myth of Mental Illness
by Thomas Szasz • 1961
Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.
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2k+
🚫 Anti-Psychiatry🏥 Medicalization⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics
The Myth of Mental Illness Summary
The Myth of Mental Illness 90%
Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.
by Thomas Szasz 1961
3.76
2k+ ratings
🚫 Anti-Psychiatry🏥 Medicalization⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics
No One Cares About Crazy People
by Ron Powers • 2017
Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.
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4k+
🏛️ Psychiatric History📋 Mental Health Policy👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir
No One Cares About Crazy People Summary
No One Cares About Crazy People 90%
Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.
by Ron Powers 2017
3.87
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Psychiatric History📋 Mental Health Policy👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir
The Devil's Castle
by Susanne Paola Antonetta • 2025
Diagnostic categories created by eugenicists to justify Nazi euthanasia still live inside the DSM.
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🧠 Psychiatric History☠️ Nazi Eugenics🧬 Biological Psychiatry
The Devil's Castle Summary
The Devil's Castle 89%
Diagnostic categories created by eugenicists to justify Nazi euthanasia still live inside the DSM.
by Susanne Paola Antonetta 2025
3.28
72 ratings
🧠 Psychiatric History☠️ Nazi Eugenics🧬 Biological Psychiatry
Anatomy of an Epidemic
by Robert Whitaker • 2010
Mental disability rates spiked after psychiatric drugs became standard. The cure may be the cause.
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🧠 Critical Psychiatry💊 Psychiatric Drug Critique🏥 Iatrogenic Harm
Anatomy of an Epidemic Summary
Anatomy of an Epidemic 89%
Mental disability rates spiked after psychiatric drugs became standard. The cure may be the cause.
by Robert Whitaker 2010
4.15
5k+ ratings
🧠 Critical Psychiatry💊 Psychiatric Drug Critique🏥 Iatrogenic Harm
The Best Minds
by Jonathan Rosen • 2023
He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.
4.03
18k+
🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives🔬 Forensic Psychiatry🏛️ Insanity Defense
The Best Minds Summary
The Best Minds 89%
He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.
by Jonathan Rosen 2023
4.03
18k+ ratings
🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives🔬 Forensic Psychiatry🏛️ Insanity Defense
Mad in America
by Robert Whitaker • 2002
Schizophrenia patients recover more often without medication. American psychiatry hides this data.
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3k+
🏛️ History Of Psychiatry💊 Pharmaceutical Industry⚠️ Iatrogenic Illness
Mad in America Summary
Mad in America 89%
Schizophrenia patients recover more often without medication. American psychiatry hides this data.
by Robert Whitaker 2002
4.18
3k+ ratings
🏛️ History Of Psychiatry💊 Pharmaceutical Industry⚠️ Iatrogenic Illness
The Power of Different
by Gail Saltz • 2017
Anxiety, depression, autism, and ADHD: the cognitive gifts we miss when we see only the disorder.
4.07
1k+
🧠 Neurodiversity🎨 Creativity And Madness🏋️ Strength-Based Psychology
The Power of Different Summary
The Power of Different 89%
Anxiety, depression, autism, and ADHD: the cognitive gifts we miss when we see only the disorder.
by Gail Saltz 2017
4.07
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neurodiversity🎨 Creativity And Madness🏋️ Strength-Based Psychology
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995
A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.
4.06
87k+
🎭 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🩺 Patient As Expert
An Unquiet Mind Summary
An Unquiet Mind 89%
A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.
by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995
4.06
87k+ ratings
🎭 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🩺 Patient As Expert
Neurodiversity
by Thomas Armstrong • 2010
The medical model calls them disorders. Neurodiversity calls them the source of human creativity.
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1k+
🧠 Neurodiversity🧬 Evolutionary Psychiatry♿ Social Model Of Disability
Neurodiversity Summary
Neurodiversity 89%
The medical model calls them disorders. Neurodiversity calls them the source of human creativity.
by Thomas Armstrong 2010
3.85
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neurodiversity🧬 Evolutionary Psychiatry♿ Social Model Of Disability
Destructive Trends in Mental Health
by Rogers H. Wright • 2005
Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.
3.95
21
🧠 Clinical Psychology🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach⚖️ Psychology Ethics
Destructive Trends in Mental Health Summary
Destructive Trends in Mental Health 89%
Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.
by Rogers H. Wright 2005
3.95
21 ratings
🧠 Clinical Psychology🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach⚖️ Psychology Ethics
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
by Michael White • 1990
Your life is a story under revision. A therapeutic method for taking back the pen.
4.06
396
🕸️ Narrative Therapy🧱 Social Constructionism✍️ Therapeutic Writing
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends Summary
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends 89%
Your life is a story under revision. A therapeutic method for taking back the pen.
by Michael White 1990
4.06
396 ratings
🕸️ Narrative Therapy🧱 Social Constructionism✍️ Therapeutic Writing
In My Room
by Jim Lucey • 2014
Recovery is possible even when mental illness persists. A psychiatrist proves it, case by case.
3.38
203
🏥 Psychiatric Memoir🌱 Recovery Journeys💬 Stigma And Mental Health
In My Room Summary
In My Room 89%
Recovery is possible even when mental illness persists. A psychiatrist proves it, case by case.
by Jim Lucey 2014
3.38
203 ratings
🏥 Psychiatric Memoir🌱 Recovery Journeys💬 Stigma And Mental Health
No More Normal
by Alastair Santhouse • 2025
Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?
4.04
91
🧠 Psychiatric Overreach📈 Diagnostic Inflation🏥 Medicalizing Distress
No More Normal Summary
No More Normal 89%
Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?
by Alastair Santhouse 2025
4.04
91 ratings
🧠 Psychiatric Overreach📈 Diagnostic Inflation🏥 Medicalizing Distress
Madness
by Marya Hornbacher • 2008
At four, she never slept. At thirty, she'd survived mania, addiction, and the psychiatric ward.
4.04
15k+
🧠 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🍷 Dual Diagnosis
Madness Summary
Madness 89%
At four, she never slept. At thirty, she'd survived mania, addiction, and the psychiatric ward.
by Marya Hornbacher 2008
4.04
15k+ ratings
🧠 Bipolar Disorder📖 Psychiatric Memoir🍷 Dual Diagnosis
Losing Our Minds
by Lucy Foulkes • 2022
Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.
4.07
786
🩺 Medicalization Of Distress🧒 Adolescent Mental Health📈 Diagnostic Inflation
Losing Our Minds Summary
Losing Our Minds 89%
Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.
by Lucy Foulkes 2022
4.07
786 ratings
🩺 Medicalization Of Distress🧒 Adolescent Mental Health📈 Diagnostic Inflation
Neuroqueer Heresies
by Nick Walker • 2021
What if the 'normal' brain is a myth and autism exposes what's true about all minds?
4.28
1k+
🧠 Neurodiversity Movement♿ Social Model Of Disability🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory
Neuroqueer Heresies Summary
Neuroqueer Heresies 88%
What if the 'normal' brain is a myth and autism exposes what's true about all minds?
by Nick Walker 2021
4.28
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neurodiversity Movement♿ Social Model Of Disability🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory
Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen • 1993
One interview. A locked ward. Two years of asking who gets to define a woman's sanity.
3.95
283k+
🏥 Psychiatric Memoir👩 Women And Madness🤝 Ward Friendships
Girl, Interrupted Summary
Girl, Interrupted 88%
One interview. A locked ward. Two years of asking who gets to define a woman's sanity.
by Susanna Kaysen 1993
3.95
283k+ ratings
🏥 Psychiatric Memoir👩 Women And Madness🤝 Ward Friendships
Saving Normal
by Allen Frances • 2013
The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.
3.85
2k+
🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis💊 Pharmaceutical Industry🩺 Medicalization Critique
Saving Normal Summary
Saving Normal 88%
The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.
by Allen Frances 2013
3.85
2k+ ratings
🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis💊 Pharmaceutical Industry🩺 Medicalization Critique
Divided Minds
by Pamela Spiro Wagner • 2005
One twin develops schizophrenia. The other becomes a psychiatrist. A bond built for two, tested.
4.00
3k+
🧠 Schizophrenia Memoirs👯 Twin Bonds🏥 Psychiatric Wards
Divided Minds Summary
Divided Minds 88%
One twin develops schizophrenia. The other becomes a psychiatrist. A bond built for two, tested.
by Pamela Spiro Wagner 2005
4.00
3k+ ratings
🧠 Schizophrenia Memoirs👯 Twin Bonds🏥 Psychiatric Wards
The Hunger Artists
by Maud Ellmann • 1993
Why self-starvation is always a form of writing, from Irish hunger strikers to Kafka.
3.82
50
📖 Literary Criticism🧠 Psychoanalysis🗣️ Body Politics
The Hunger Artists Summary
The Hunger Artists 88%
Why self-starvation is always a form of writing, from Irish hunger strikers to Kafka.
by Maud Ellmann 1993
3.82
50 ratings
📖 Literary Criticism🧠 Psychoanalysis🗣️ Body Politics
NeuroTribes
by Steve Silberman • 2015
Autism's hidden century: a spectrum buried by blame, reclaimed by a civil rights movement.
4.28
18k+
📜 Autism History🧠 Neurodiversity Movement📢 Parent Advocacy
NeuroTribes Summary
NeuroTribes 88%
Autism's hidden century: a spectrum buried by blame, reclaimed by a civil rights movement.
by Steve Silberman 2015
4.28
18k+ ratings
📜 Autism History🧠 Neurodiversity Movement📢 Parent Advocacy
A First-Rate Madness
by S. Nassir Ghaemi • 2011
Sanity is overrated for crisis leadership. Depression and mania offer traits the healthy mind lacks.
3.73
4k+
🧠 Political Psychology🚨 Crisis Leadership🎨 Creativity And Madness
A First-Rate Madness Summary
A First-Rate Madness 88%
Sanity is overrated for crisis leadership. Depression and mania offer traits the healthy mind lacks.
by S. Nassir Ghaemi 2011
3.73
4k+ ratings
🧠 Political Psychology🚨 Crisis Leadership🎨 Creativity And Madness
Profiles in Mental Health Courage
by Patrick J. Kennedy • 2024
When mental illness and addiction go untreated together, recovery slips away. Twelve lives show how.
4.19
247
📖 Psychiatric Memoir🔗 Co-Occurring Disorders🔄 Addiction And Recovery
Profiles in Mental Health Courage Summary
Profiles in Mental Health Courage 88%
When mental illness and addiction go untreated together, recovery slips away. Twelve lives show how.
by Patrick J. Kennedy 2024
4.19
247 ratings
📖 Psychiatric Memoir🔗 Co-Occurring Disorders🔄 Addiction And Recovery
The Psychopath Test
by Jon Ronson • 2011
A journalist learns to spot psychopaths. Then the checklist starts spotting him.
3.95
158k+
🧠 Forensic Psychology📰 Investigative Journalism🎭 Psychopathy
The Psychopath Test Summary
The Psychopath Test 88%
A journalist learns to spot psychopaths. Then the checklist starts spotting him.
by Jon Ronson 2011
3.95
158k+ ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychology📰 Investigative Journalism🎭 Psychopathy
Crazy Like Us
by Ethan Watters • 2009
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
4.10
4k+
🩺 Medical Anthropology🌍 Global Mental Health🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes
Crazy Like Us Summary
Crazy Like Us 88%
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
by Ethan Watters 2009
4.10
4k+ ratings
🩺 Medical Anthropology🌍 Global Mental Health🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes
The Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon • 2000
From personal breakdown to global atlas: the biology, history, and politics of depression.
4.19
16k+
🩺 Clinical Depression📖 Memoir And Science💊 Integrated Treatment
The Noonday Demon Summary
The Noonday Demon 88%
From personal breakdown to global atlas: the biology, history, and politics of depression.
by Andrew Solomon 2000
4.19
16k+ ratings
🩺 Clinical Depression📖 Memoir And Science💊 Integrated Treatment
Projections
by Karl Deisseroth • 2021
How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.
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2k+
🧠 Biological Psychiatry💔 Affective Neuroscience🔌 Neural Circuits
Projections Summary
Projections 88%
How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.
by Karl Deisseroth 2021
4.00
2k+ ratings
🧠 Biological Psychiatry💔 Affective Neuroscience🔌 Neural Circuits
Anti-Oedipus
by Gilles Deleuze • 1972
Desire produces, not pursues. Oedipus is how society tames it.
4.18
9k+
🏛️ Post-Structuralism📚 Continental Philosophy🇫🇷 French Theory
Anti-Oedipus Summary
Anti-Oedipus 88%
Desire produces, not pursues. Oedipus is how society tames it.
by Gilles Deleuze 1972
4.18
9k+ ratings
🏛️ Post-Structuralism📚 Continental Philosophy🇫🇷 French Theory
Psychedelic Medicine
by Richard Louis Miller • 2017
Four illegal molecules can rewire the traumatized brain. The evidence was buried.
4.01
312
🍄 Psychedelic Therapy🩺 Psychiatry Critique⚖️ Drug Policy Reform
Psychedelic Medicine Summary
Psychedelic Medicine 88%
Four illegal molecules can rewire the traumatized brain. The evidence was buried.
by Richard Louis Miller 2017
4.01
312 ratings
🍄 Psychedelic Therapy🩺 Psychiatry Critique⚖️ Drug Policy Reform
Pink Floyd and Philosophy
by George A. Reisch • 2010
Pink Floyd's albums double as philosophy lectures on Marx, Camus, and the machinery of madness.
3.81
272
💭 Popular Philosophy🎸 Music Criticism💿 Album Analysis
Pink Floyd and Philosophy Summary
Pink Floyd and Philosophy 88%
Pink Floyd's albums double as philosophy lectures on Marx, Camus, and the machinery of madness.
by George A. Reisch 2010
3.81
272 ratings
💭 Popular Philosophy🎸 Music Criticism💿 Album Analysis
Tell Me How You Eat
by Amber Husain • 2026
Stopping eating was not about thinness but a world she could no longer stomach.
3.34
112
🍽️ Food Politics🥄 Eating Disorders🤝 Collective Care
Tell Me How You Eat Summary
Tell Me How You Eat 88%
Stopping eating was not about thinness but a world she could no longer stomach.
by Amber Husain 2026
3.34
112 ratings
🍽️ Food Politics🥄 Eating Disorders🤝 Collective Care
Everything in Its Place
by Oliver Sacks • 2019
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
4.14
3k+
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
Everything in Its Place Summary
Everything in Its Place 88%
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
by Oliver Sacks 2019
4.14
3k+ ratings
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine
The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton • 1621
A recluse stitched all of literature into one book to prove everyone is mad.
4.10
2k+
🏛️ Renaissance Humanism📚 Classical Scholarship🌧️ Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy Summary
The Anatomy of Melancholy 88%
A recluse stitched all of literature into one book to prove everyone is mad.
by Robert Burton 1621
4.10
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Renaissance Humanism📚 Classical Scholarship🌧️ Melancholy
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
by BLACKFORD NEWMAN KATINKA • 2016
One pill for stress, then psychosis: she slashed her arm, believing her children were dead.
3.55
144
💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption⚠️ Psychiatric Drug Harms🏥 Medicalization Critique
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants Summary
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants 88%
One pill for stress, then psychosis: she slashed her arm, believing her children were dead.
by BLACKFORD NEWMAN KATINKA 2016
3.55
144 ratings
💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption⚠️ Psychiatric Drug Harms🏥 Medicalization Critique
We're Not Broken
by Eric Garcia • 2021
Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.
4.12
3k+
🧠 Neurodiversity Movement⚖️ Disability Justice🗣️ Autism Advocacy
We're Not Broken Summary
We're Not Broken 88%
Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.
by Eric Garcia 2021
4.12
3k+ ratings
🧠 Neurodiversity Movement⚖️ Disability Justice🗣️ Autism Advocacy
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs
by Joanna Moncrieff • 2009
Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.
4.36
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🧠 Critical Psychiatry🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs Summary
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs 88%
Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.
by Joanna Moncrieff 2009
4.36
107 ratings
🧠 Critical Psychiatry🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
by David Adam • 2014
Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.
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6k+
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir💭 Intrusive Thoughts🔬 Brain Science
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Summary
The Man Who Couldn't Stop 88%
Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.
by David Adam 2014
3.90
6k+ ratings
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir💭 Intrusive Thoughts🔬 Brain Science
Fish
by Stephen C. Lundin • 1996
She broke rules to escape the void where empathy and guilt should have been.
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29k+
🩺 Clinical Memoir🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir🎭 Masking And Mimicry
Fish Summary
Fish 88%
She broke rules to escape the void where empathy and guilt should have been.
by Stephen C. Lundin 1996
3.92
29k+ ratings
🩺 Clinical Memoir🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir🎭 Masking And Mimicry
Far From The Tree
by Andrew Solomon • 2012
Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.
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23k+
🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Neurodiversity♿ Social Model Of Disability
Far From The Tree Summary
Far From The Tree 88%
Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.
by Andrew Solomon 2012
4.27
23k+ ratings
🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Neurodiversity♿ Social Model Of Disability
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester • 1998
The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.
3.84
122k+
🎯 Lexicography🔗 Criminal Insanity💥 Civil War Trauma
The Professor and the Madman Summary
The Professor and the Madman 88%
The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.
by Simon Winchester 1998
3.84
122k+ ratings
🎯 Lexicography🔗 Criminal Insanity💥 Civil War Trauma
In Praise of Risk
by Anne Dufourmantelle • 2011
To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.
4.12
613
🧠 Continental Philosophy🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought✍️ Essay Collections
In Praise of Risk Summary
In Praise of Risk 88%
To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.
by Anne Dufourmantelle 2011
4.12
613 ratings
🧠 Continental Philosophy🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought✍️ Essay Collections
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