Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochrane) (Ian L. Munro, New York, 1887)
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker (Perseus Publishing, New York, 2002)
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease) by David Healy (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008)
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum by Mary Huestis Pengilly (Author, 1885)
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840–1945 by Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris (Anchor Books, New York, 1994)
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson (Picador, London, 2011)