 | Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help) by Stuart A. Kirk
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £9.98 Amazing book challenging societies obsession with labelling and diagnosing behaviour as diseases.
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 | The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Contact (Perennial library) by Thomas Szasz
Buy used from: £6.43 A classic in exploring the relationship between psychiatry and the state.
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 | Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress by David Smail
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £8.00 Argues that human distress is a product of society and not the human mind.
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 | Depression (Overcoming common problems) by Paul A. Hauck
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent self-help book on depression helping one to revaluate their thoughts and behaviour.
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 | Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison by Dorothy Rowe
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.65 The best depression book ever written.
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 | Psychiatric Drugs Explained by David Healy MD FRCPsych
Buy new: £18.89 / Used from: £10.00 The only book you need on psychiatric drugs and the only book I really reccomend to students.
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 | Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock and Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatry by Peter Roger Breggin
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £4.88 The book that opened my mind to a new whole way of thinking about psychiatric drugs.
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 | Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £5.00 Interesting analysis of the role of power, knowledge and confinement in the development of psychiatry.
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 | Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress by Terry Lynch
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £12.23 A great starting point for a critique of biological psychiatry.
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 | Against Therapy Common Courage Press, Box 702, Monroe ME 04951 by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Buy used from: £20.00 Want to understand the ethics and limits of psychotherapy? Read this.
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