Suggested Reading

Barber, Charles. Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation.

Bass, Alison. Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial.

Basset, Thurstine and Theo Stickley. Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors.

Bentall, Richard. Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature.

Bentall, Richard. Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail.

Boyle, Mary. Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?

Breggin, Peter. Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime.

Breggin, Peter. Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the “New Psychiatry.”

Caplan, Paula. Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis.

Caplan, Paula. They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal.

Carlat, Daniel. Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry.

Coles, Steven, Sarah Keenan, and Bob Diamond. Madness Contested. Power and Practice.

Conrad, Peter. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders.

Cordle, Hannah, Jerome Carson, and Paul Richards. Psychosis: Stories of Recovery and Hope.

Cromby, John, David Harper, and Paula Reavey. Psychology, Mental Health and Distress.

Fadden, Grainne, Carolyn James, and Vanessa Pinfold. Caring for Yourself: Self Help for Families and Friends Supporting People with Mental Health Problems.

Fancher, Robert. Cultures of Healing: Correcting the Image of American Mental Health Care.

Fisher, Seymour and Roger Greenberg. From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test.

Geekie, Jim. Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia.

Greenberg, Gary. The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry.

Healy, David. Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression.

Healy, David. Pharmageddon.

Hornstein, Gail. Agnes’ Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness.

Horwitz, Allan and Jerome Wakefield. The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder.

Johnstone, Lucy. A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis.

Johnstone, Lucy: Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems.

Johnstone, Lucy. Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice.

Jones, Steven, Fiona Lobban, and Anne Cooke. Understanding Bipolar Disorder: why people experience extreme mood states and what can help.

Joseph, Jay. The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes.

Kinderman, Peter. A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Kirk, Stuart, Tomi Gomory and David Cohen. Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs.

Kirk, Stuart. Mental Disorders in the Social Environment.

Kirk, Stuart and Herb Kutchins. The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry.

Kirsch, Irving. The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth.

Kutchins, Herb and Stuart Kirk. Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders.

Laurance, Jeremy. Pure Madness: How Fear Drives the Mental Health System.

Levine, Bruce. Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy and Community in a World Gone Crazy.

Maisel, Eric. Life Purpose Boot Camp.

Maisel, Eric. Mastering Creative Anxiety.

Maisel, Eric. Rethinking Depression: How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning.

Maisel, Eric. Why Smart People Hurt.

Moncrieff, Joanna. A Straight Talking Guide to Psychiatric Drugs.

Moncrieff, Joanna. The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs.

Moncrieff, Joanna. The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment.

Rapley, Mark, Joanna Moncrieff, and Jacqui Dillon. De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition.

Read, John and Pete Sanders. A Straight Talking Guide to the Causes of Mental Health Problems.

Rosemond, John and Bose Ravenel. The Diseasing of America’s Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control.

Ross, Colin and Alvin Pam. Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body.

Shannon, Scott. Mental Health for the Whole Child.

Shannon, Scott. Parenting for the Whole Child.

Shannon, Scott. Please Don’t Label My Child.

Sinaikin, Phillip. Psychiatryland: How to Protect Yourself from Pill-Pushing Psychiatrists and Develop a Personal Plan for Optimal Mental Health.

Szasz, Thomas: The Manufacture of Madness.

Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness.

Tew, Jerry. Social Approaches to Mental Distress.

Timimi, Sami. A Straight Talking Guide to Children’s Mental Health Problems.

Valenstein, Elliot. Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health.

Watters, Ethan. Crazy like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche.

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

Whitaker, Robert. Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill.

Williams, Paris. Rethinking Psychosis: Towards a Paradigm Shift in our Understanding of Psychosis.