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1JustineWander
Edited: Sep 7, 2007, 9:44 am

....need it...avoid it...getting it...gone

Gracefully Insane - Alex Beam
Family Terrorists - Antony Nelson
When Rabbit Howls - Trudi Chase for the Troops
Bibliotherapy - Beverly West and Nancy Peske
The Ecstasy Club - Douglas Ruskoff

...and the touchstones don't seem to be working.

2philosojerk
Sep 7, 2007, 10:12 am

LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients by Sheldon Kopp
Abnormal Psychology by Gerald Davison
Social Deviance by Henry Pontell
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

3chani
Sep 7, 2007, 11:53 am

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
Angry Young Spaceman by Jim Munroe
Amnesia Moon by Johnathan Lethem
Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The Dream Master by Roger Zelanzy

(touchstones for authors done seem to be working for me)

4tropics
Sep 7, 2007, 3:11 pm

5aviddiva
Sep 7, 2007, 3:30 pm

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome by Joan D. Vinge
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Goldhor Lerner

6tropics
Sep 7, 2007, 3:40 pm

An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison
Dancing With Daddy - Betsy Peterson
Faces In The Water - Janet Frame
The Disowned Self - Nathaniel Branden
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

7abbottthomas
Sep 7, 2007, 7:47 pm

13tropics
Sep 8, 2007, 1:41 pm

Bright Angel Time - Martha McPhee
Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous To Your Health - William Glasser, M.D.
Toxic Psychiatry - Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Creating Mental Illness - Allan V. Horwitz, M.D.
Mount Misery - Samuel Shem, M.D.

15tropics
Sep 9, 2007, 1:46 pm

Fine - Samuel Shem, M.D.
Bush On The Couch - Justin Frank, M.D.
The Earth Has A Soul: The Nature Writings Of C. G. Jung - C.G. Jung
Man And His Symbols - C.G. Jung
Transparent Self - Sidney Jourard

17tropics
Sep 10, 2007, 1:06 am

Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir - James Salant
Mockingbird Years: A Life In And Out Of Therapy - Emily Fox Gordon
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness - Pete Earley
Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba - Jackie Lyden
Street Crazy: America's Mental Health Tragedy - Stephen Seager

18tropics
Sep 12, 2007, 12:02 am

Tales From A Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients - Robert U. Akeret
Memories, Dreams, Reflections - C.G. Jung
Tear Soup - Pat Schweibert
Unattended Sorrow: Recovering From Loss And Reviving The Heart - Stephen Levine
Rage: A Step-By-Step Guide To Overcoming Explosive Anger -
Ronald Potter-Efron

20tropics
Oct 24, 2007, 1:24 pm

I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help - Xavier Amador
Shrunken Heads (The Insane, The Profane, And The Profound On The Road To Becoming A Psychologist) - Gregory Lester
Women Of The Asylum: Voices From Behind The Walls, 1840-1945 - J. Geller
Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited - Sam Vaknin
Contaminated: My Journey Out Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Gerry Radano

21eba1999
Dec 18, 2007, 11:25 am

22extrajoker
Jan 22, 2008, 12:08 pm

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye
Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
(New England Remembers) Lizzie Borden by Karen Elizabeth Chaney

23ostrom
Feb 3, 2008, 3:58 am

A Little Book on the Human Shadow Robert Bly
Getting Better, by Nell Ann Robertson
Inner Voice of Love Henri Nouwen
Pensees Blaise Pascal
The Wounded Healer Henri Nouwen
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
The Seven Per Cent Solution Nicholas Meyer, in which Sherlock Holmes is treated by Sigmund Freud
I'm Okay, You're Okay Thomas A. Harris

24gforce7
Edited: Aug 17, 2008, 6:20 pm

25varielle
Edited: Dec 15, 2009, 12:03 pm

26Carrotlady
Feb 24, 2010, 7:04 am

27EMS_24
Edited: Jan 22, 2015, 4:15 am

Van de koele meren des Doods by Frederik Van Eeden 1900 (translated in English as The Deeps of Deliverance or Hedwig's Journey. Literally: Of the cold lakes of death)
Yellow by Janni Visman
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
Tussen één persoon by Esther Gerritsen Between one person. (In Dutch the title is curious too)
De eenzaamheid van de waanzin : tweehonderd jaar psychiatrie in romans en verhalen by Ranne Hovius The solitude of the insanity: Two hundred years of psychiatry in romans and stories.

32nrmay
Jan 23, 2015, 1:58 pm

36nrmay
Edited: Jan 24, 2015, 10:41 am

A short history of Weston Hospital: (Trans-Allegheny Asylum for the Insane) (Weston State Hospital), Weston, West Virginia by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker
Misery Stephen King
Harry's Mad Dick King-Smith
Hello, Darkness Sandra Brown
You Might As Well Die J.J. Murphy

37rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 25, 2015, 1:23 am

Lupus: Alternative Therapies that Work by Sharon Moore

There is a Cure for Arthritis
by Paavo Airota

Change your Mind, Heal your Body: when Modern Medicine has no Cure, the Answer Lies within: My True Story of Self-Healing
by Anna Parkinson

Herbal Tonic Therapies
by Daniel Mowrey

Feeling Good: the New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns

38antonomasia
Edited: Feb 19, 2015, 7:45 pm