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🔒 Coercive Psychiatry

A critical look at the use of psychiatric power to control rather than heal, exploring involuntary treatment, institutional abuse, and the thin line between care and confinement.
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 93%
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
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 91%
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.
4.09
448
🏥 History Of Psychiatry🏛️ Institutional Critique💉 Medical Hubris
Desperate Remedies Summary
Desperate Remedies 91%
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
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 90%
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 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 90%
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 90%
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
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 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
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📚 Mad Studies
We've Been Too Patient Summary
We've Been Too Patient 90%
Psychiatry blames brain chemistry. Survivors argue the model is the wound.
by L.D. Green 2019
4.15
202 ratings
🏛️ Anti-Psychiatry🏳️ Mad Pride📚 Mad Studies
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
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
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.
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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 89%
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 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 89%
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
Divided Minds
by Pamela Spiro Wagner • 2005
One twin develops schizophrenia. The other becomes a psychiatrist. A bond built for two, tested.
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3k+
🧠 Schizophrenia Memoirs👯 Twin Bonds🏥 Psychiatric Wards
Divided Minds Summary
Divided Minds 89%
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
Antidepressed
by Beverley Thomson • 2021
Antidepressants can create the brain state they're supposed to cure, and quitting is even harder.
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🧠 Antidepressant Harm💊 Psychiatric Drugs🏥 Medicalization
Antidepressed Summary
Antidepressed 89%
Antidepressants can create the brain state they're supposed to cure, and quitting is even harder.
by Beverley Thomson 2021
4.40
48 ratings
🧠 Antidepressant Harm💊 Psychiatric Drugs🏥 Medicalization
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 89%
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
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
Saving Normal
by Allen Frances • 2013
The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.
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2k+
🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis💊 Pharmaceutical Industry🩺 Medicalization Critique
Saving Normal Summary
Saving Normal 89%
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
Take Back Your Life
by Janja Lalich • 1994
You left the cult. Its programming stayed. Here is how to dismantle what remains.
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220
🏚️ Cult Recovery🧠 Mind Control📖 Coercive Persuasion
Take Back Your Life Summary
Take Back Your Life 89%
You left the cult. Its programming stayed. Here is how to dismantle what remains.
by Janja Lalich 1994
4.38
220 ratings
🏚️ Cult Recovery🧠 Mind Control📖 Coercive Persuasion
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
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream
by Robert I. Simon • 1996
The monsters in the news are not a different species: they are you, minus restraint.
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🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🔍 Criminal Psychology💔 Empathy Deficits
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream Summary
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream 89%
The monsters in the news are not a different species: they are you, minus restraint.
by Robert I. Simon 1996
3.77
230 ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🔍 Criminal Psychology💔 Empathy Deficits
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 89%
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
Insane
by Alisa Roth • 2018
Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.
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1k+
🏥 Mental Illness In Jails🔒 Mass Incarceration🏚️ Deinstitutionalization
Insane Summary
Insane 89%
Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.
by Alisa Roth 2018
4.07
1k+ ratings
🏥 Mental Illness In Jails🔒 Mass Incarceration🏚️ Deinstitutionalization
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995
A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.
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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
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.
3.90
6k+
🧠 Mental Illness Memoir💭 Intrusive Thoughts🔬 Brain Science
The Man Who Couldn't Stop Summary
The Man Who Couldn't Stop 89%
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
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
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
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 89%
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
Terror, Love and Brainwashing
by Alexandra Stein • 2017
The need to belong, turned into a weapon: the psychology that explains totalist control.
4.00
520
🧷 Attachment Theory🧠 Brainwashing⛓️ Coercive Control
Terror, Love and Brainwashing Summary
Terror, Love and Brainwashing 89%
The need to belong, turned into a weapon: the psychology that explains totalist control.
by Alexandra Stein 2017
4.00
520 ratings
🧷 Attachment Theory🧠 Brainwashing⛓️ Coercive Control
Empire of Normality
by Robert Chapman • 2023
The line between healthy and broken minds was drawn by factory logic and market demands.
4.27
1k+
🧠 Neurodiversity Politics♿ Social Model Of Disability🧬 History Of Eugenics
Empire of Normality Summary
Empire of Normality 89%
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
The Minds of Billy Milligan
by Daniel Keyes • 1981
Twenty-four selves, one body, and a crime that broke the legal definition of guilt.
4.27
36k+
🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🪞 Dissociative Identity💔 Childhood Trauma
The Minds of Billy Milligan Summary
The Minds of Billy Milligan 89%
Twenty-four selves, one body, and a crime that broke the legal definition of guilt.
by Daniel Keyes 1981
4.27
36k+ ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🪞 Dissociative Identity💔 Childhood Trauma
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 89%
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
Rozdělené Self
by R.D. Laing • 1960
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
4.11
7k+
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
Rozdělené Self Summary
Rozdělené Self 89%
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
by R.D. Laing 1960
4.11
7k+ ratings
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
Invisible Chains
by Lisa Aronson Fontes • 2015
It feels like devotion but isolates, monitors, and threatens: the exit strategy you need.
4.18
128
⛓️ Coercive Control💔 Emotional Abuse🌫️ Gaslighting
Invisible Chains Summary
Invisible Chains 88%
It feels like devotion but isolates, monitors, and threatens: the exit strategy you need.
by Lisa Aronson Fontes 2015
4.18
128 ratings
⛓️ Coercive Control💔 Emotional Abuse🌫️ Gaslighting
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
Prozac Nation
by Elizabeth Wurtzel • 1994
At eleven she cut herself, at Harvard she overdosed, then a pill renamed a generation.
3.64
64k+
🧠 Psychiatric Memoir📖 Confessional Memoir🩸 Self-Harm And Cutting
Prozac Nation Summary
Prozac Nation 88%
At eleven she cut herself, at Harvard she overdosed, then a pill renamed a generation.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel 1994
3.64
64k+ ratings
🧠 Psychiatric Memoir📖 Confessional Memoir🩸 Self-Harm And Cutting
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly • 1887
A reporter faked madness and got committed. Ten days among 1,600 women, freezing and starved.
3.86
25k+
🗞️ Muckraking Journalism🏥 Psychiatric Abuse⚖️ Wrongful Commitment
Ten Days in a Mad-House Summary
Ten Days in a Mad-House 88%
A reporter faked madness and got committed. Ten days among 1,600 women, freezing and starved.
by Nellie Bly 1887
3.86
25k+ ratings
🗞️ Muckraking Journalism🏥 Psychiatric Abuse⚖️ Wrongful Commitment
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 Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon • 2000
From personal breakdown to global atlas: the biology, history, and politics of depression.
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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
La psicopatia
by Robert D. Hare • 2018
Rational, not psychotic: the clinical tool that separates true psychopaths from ordinary offenders.
4.21
28
🏛️ Forensic Psychology📋 Clinical Assessment🧠 Psychopathy
La psicopatia Summary
La psicopatia 88%
Rational, not psychotic: the clinical tool that separates true psychopaths from ordinary offenders.
by Robert D. Hare 2018
4.21
28 ratings
🏛️ Forensic Psychology📋 Clinical Assessment🧠 Psychopathy
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Kieron O'Connor • 2011
OCD starts with self-made doubt, not an intrusion. Treat the reasoning, not just the compulsion.
4.03
34
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Ocd Treatment🫀 Anxiety Disorders
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Summary
Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 88%
OCD starts with self-made doubt, not an intrusion. Treat the reasoning, not just the compulsion.
by Kieron O'Connor 2011
4.03
34 ratings
🧠 Clinical Psychology🔄 Ocd Treatment🫀 Anxiety Disorders
American Therapy
by Jonathan Engel • 2008
America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.
3.39
70
🛋️ Psychotherapy History🇺🇸 American Cultural History🗣️ Talk Therapy
American Therapy Summary
American Therapy 88%
America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.
by Jonathan Engel 2008
3.39
70 ratings
🛋️ Psychotherapy History🇺🇸 American Cultural History🗣️ Talk Therapy
Stop Obsessing! Stop Obsessing!
by Edna B. Foa • 1991
OCD is a loop of dread and ritual. The escape is to invite fear, not flee.
3.89
310
🧠 Ocd Treatment😰 Anxiety Disorders🛋️ Cbt
Stop Obsessing! Stop Obsessing! Summary
Stop Obsessing! Stop Obsessing! 88%
OCD is a loop of dread and ritual. The escape is to invite fear, not flee.
by Edna B. Foa 1991
3.89
310 ratings
🧠 Ocd Treatment😰 Anxiety Disorders🛋️ Cbt
Haldol and Hyacinths
by Melody Moezzi • 2013
A bipolar diagnosis, a string of psych wards, and an Iranian-American family holding her together.
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1k+
🎭 Bipolar Disorder🏥 Psychiatric Memoir🤫 Mental Illness Stigma
Haldol and Hyacinths Summary
Haldol and Hyacinths 88%
A bipolar diagnosis, a string of psych wards, and an Iranian-American family holding her together.
by Melody Moezzi 2013
3.94
1k+ ratings
🎭 Bipolar Disorder🏥 Psychiatric Memoir🤫 Mental Illness Stigma
Descriptions and Prescriptions
by Michael R. Emlet • 2017
Psychiatric labels and medications: how to accept the help without worshiping the tool.
4.41
825
🙏 Christian Mental Health🧭 Biblical Counseling📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis
Descriptions and Prescriptions Summary
Descriptions and Prescriptions 88%
Psychiatric labels and medications: how to accept the help without worshiping the tool.
by Michael R. Emlet 2017
4.41
825 ratings
🙏 Christian Mental Health🧭 Biblical Counseling📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis
Destructive Trends in Mental Health
by Rogers H. Wright • 2005
Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.
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21
🧠 Clinical Psychology🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach⚖️ Psychology Ethics
Destructive Trends in Mental Health Summary
Destructive Trends in Mental Health 88%
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
Men Have Called Her Crazy
by Anna Marie Tendler • 2024
Two personality disorders, one psychiatric hospital, and the real diagnosis no doctor wrote down.
3.43
23k+
🏥 Trauma Memoir🏨 Inpatient Psychiatry💔 Self-Harm Recovery
Men Have Called Her Crazy Summary
Men Have Called Her Crazy 88%
Two personality disorders, one psychiatric hospital, and the real diagnosis no doctor wrote down.
by Anna Marie Tendler 2024
3.43
23k+ ratings
🏥 Trauma Memoir🏨 Inpatient Psychiatry💔 Self-Harm Recovery
The Dark Side of the Mind
by Kerry Daynes • 2019
A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.
4.02
8k+
🧠 Forensic Psychology🔍 True Crime Memoir🧸 Childhood Trauma
The Dark Side of the Mind Summary
The Dark Side of the Mind 88%
A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.
by Kerry Daynes 2019
4.02
8k+ ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychology🔍 True Crime Memoir🧸 Childhood Trauma
Every Day Gets A Little Closer
by Irvin D. Yalom • 1991
Two diaries, one therapy room: what the patient hid and what the therapist really thought.
3.76
3k+
🧠 Psychodynamic Therapy🌌 Existential Psychotherapy🤝 Therapeutic Relationship
Every Day Gets A Little Closer Summary
Every Day Gets A Little Closer 88%
Two diaries, one therapy room: what the patient hid and what the therapist really thought.
by Irvin D. Yalom 1991
3.76
3k+ ratings
🧠 Psychodynamic Therapy🌌 Existential Psychotherapy🤝 Therapeutic Relationship
Psychosomatic Families
by Salvador Minuchin • 1978
Anorexia is a family problem. Treated as one, the cure rate reaches 86%.
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29
🏥 Family Systems Therapy🍽️ Eating Disorders🧬 Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychosomatic Families Summary
Psychosomatic Families 88%
Anorexia is a family problem. Treated as one, the cure rate reaches 86%.
by Salvador Minuchin 1978
4.24
29 ratings
🏥 Family Systems Therapy🍽️ Eating Disorders🧬 Psychosomatic Medicine
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