Psychology Reading List
A Fractured Mind by Robert B Oxnam (DID)
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 **