Carrie Brown's Book List: The Patient's Reality

“THE PATIENT’S REALITY”

Carrie’s Book List by Psychiatric Diagnostic Category

The goal of this list is to identify books that address mental illness from the patient’s perspective; please add your favorites.

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS:

Angel Head by Greg Bottoms

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Is there no place on earth for me? By Susan Sheehan

The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller with Amanda Bennett

MOOD DISORDERS:

Darkness Visible by William Styron

Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Prozac Nation:Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel

SUBSTANCE ABUSE:

Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

PERSONALITY DISORDERS:

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Bad men do what good men dream by Robert Simon, MD

ANXIETY DISORDERS:

Lucky by Alice Sebold

DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS:

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon

ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROMES:

I am the Central Park Jogger by Trisha Meli

EATING DISORDERS:

Appetites by Caroline Knapp

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS:

The Flock by Joan Frances Casey

First Person Plural by Cameron West

PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS:

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin