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	Yellow Wallpaper" and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Buy new: £3.61 / Used from: £0.01 creepy little story... is it really about how NOT to decoate? no way. a classic.
	Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Jean Rhys Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.94 remember that madwoman in the attic in jane eyre? well, here's her side of the story...
	The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch by Lillian B. Rubin Buy used from: £0.01 case stories from a woman therapist's perspective... good stuff.
	An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £1.49 sacks knows his stuff when it comes to neuroscience, but these stories of how the brain can go wrong are very readable - no lecture in sight.
	An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £1.61 jamison is an authority in the field of psychiatry, esp. for manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder. here, she tells how she fought and learned to live with the illness. beautifully written!
	The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom Buy used from: £5.11 while i didn't like his case studies (love's executioner) as much, this "open letter to new therapists & their clients" is very enjoyable.
	Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame Buy used from: £11.95 the author is NZ's most gifted writer, possibly. she's had her share of personal experience with mental illness. this semi-autobiographic novel about a NZ family is moving and well written.
	Flowers For Algernon (S.F. Masterworks) by Daniel Keyes Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.89 this little story won the Hugo and the Nebula award. an experiment: can a retarded boy be turned into a super-genius? at what price?
	K-Pax by Gene Brewer Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 a psychiatrist finds himself faced with a man who claims he's from the planet K-PAX. he has unusual abilities, and doesn't seem to be missed anywhere. who is this man really?
	What The Bleep Do We Know!? [DVD] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.40 interesting collage of a story, interviews, images, ideas... makes you wonder... what DO we know? what do we just assume?