A Fractured Mind by Robert B Oxnam (DID)

Psychology Reading List

A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis by Diane Ackerman (suicide hotline)

All Grown Up and No Place to Go by David Eklind (hurrying development)

Ann Sexton: a biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook (poet/abnormal)

Bad Blood: James Jones (Tuskegee study - unethical research project)

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Born on the Fourth of July by

Broken Child by Marcia Cameron <VERY intense – heartbreaking topics>

Children with Emerald Eyes by Mira Rothenberg (emotionally disturbed)

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron (depression)

Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia Axeline (play therapy)

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by Roy F. Baumeister Ph.D. and Aaron Beck

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

From Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

House Rules Jodi Picoult (Asperger's)

I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

In a Different Voice by C.Gilligan

Katherine, It's Time by Kit Castle and Stefan Bechtel (Dissociative Disorder)

Letters from Jenny by Gordon Allport (personality theory - case study)

Lisa Bright and Dark by John Neufeld (bipolar)

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison

Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks

Maps of the Mind by Charles Hampton Turner

Monochrome Days: A First-Hand Account of One Teenager's Experience With Depression by Cait Irwin, Dwight L. Evans M.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews (adolescent depression)

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks

My Lobotomy by Howard Dully

No Language But a Cry by D'Ambrosio

Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams (autism)

Nobody’s Child by Marie Balter & Richard Katz (Marie Balter spent 25 years of her life in mental hospitals, then went on to attend Harvard University and to assume a role as spokesperson for the mentally ill)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater

Optimistic Child by Martin Seligman

Ordinarv People by Judith Guest (family dysfunction)

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Phantom of the Brain by Ramach

Raising Cain

Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin (depression)

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher and Ruth Ross

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Second Heaven by Judith Guest (abuse)

Sickened: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory (Munchausen)

Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams (sequence to above book)

Summerhill by K.S. Neill (educational reform)

Switching Time by Richard Baer (DID)

Sybil by Flora Rhea Schreiber (DID)

Teaching the Psychology of People by Phyllis Bronstein and Kathryn Quina

The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Lebekron (anorexia)

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing by Judith Rapport (OCD)

The Child Called It (and subsequent books) by

The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (autism)

The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris

The Hurried Child by David Eklind

The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley (anthropology)

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Phillip Zimbardo

The Magic Years by Selma Fraiberg (early childhood development)

The Million Little Pieces (not a true memoir!)

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J. Gould

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett

The Psychopath Test:

The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner

There's a Boy in Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism by Judy Barron and Sean Barron (autism)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (infanticide)

This Stranger. My Son by Louise WIlson (schizophrenia)

Three Faces of Eve by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley (DID)

Three Psychologies by Robert Nye

Walden Two: B.F.Skinner (learning theory)

We heard the Angels of Madness: A Family Guide to Coping with Manic Depression by Diane Berger

When the Bough Breaks: there are 3 of these - any will be fine

Considering:

A Road Back From Schizophrenia: a memoir by Arnhild Laureng

How I made it to eighteen: a mostly true story by Tracy White (self-esteem, body image issues, drug addiction, and anxiety)

Prozac Nation

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (infanticide)

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding ….

The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks

The Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison

** If it is not on this list, you MUST clear it with me first **