Books similar like Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologis…

Buy this book on Amazon

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Raised with hoarding and compulsive shopping, Emily Mester is caught in between. What happens when consumption begins to consume you back?

In a series of deeply personal essays, Mester explores how th…

Buy this book on Amazon

How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Buy this book on Amazon

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, …

Buy this book on Amazon

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide— "a powerful book [that] will change people’s lives—and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).

The f…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

Buy this book on Amazon

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers —Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell…

Buy this book on Amazon

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Buy this book on Amazon

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed …

Buy this book on Amazon

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Buy this book on Amazon

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip…

Buy this book on Amazon

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Buy this book on Amazon

Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and curr…

Buy this book on Amazon