We have compiled the following list of books regarding mental illness and hope that you find these selections interesting, enlightening, and useful.

BIOGRAPHY:
Jonathan Bate - John Clare: A Biography
Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind
Joshua Wolf Schenck - Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Susan Sheehan - Is There No Place on Earth for Me
Simon Winchester - The Professor and The Madman

BIPOLAR DISORDER:
Kay Redfield Jamison and Frederick Goodwin - Manic-Depressive Illness
Kay Redfield Jamison - Touched with Fire
Judith Lederman and Candida Fink - The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child: A Survival Guide for Parents
Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D. - Bipolar Disorder
Dmitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos - The Bipolar Child

COPING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS:
Xavier Amador M.D. with Anna-Lisa Johanson - I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: Helping the Seriously Mentally Ill Accept Treatment
William Anthony, et al. - Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Kim Mueser & Susan Gingerich - The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. and Amy Alexander - Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans
Sally E. Shaywitz - Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Kenneth Talan - Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track: What Parents and Professionals can do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems

DEPRESSION:
Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield - The Loss of Sadness
Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D. - More than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression
Marie Osmond with Marcia Wilkie and Dr. Judith Moore - Behind the Smile,: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression
Anne Sheffield - How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed
Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Elizabeth Swados - My Depression: A Picture Book

HISTORY:
Michael Foucault - Madness and Civilization
Gerald Grob - The Mad Among Us
Stanley Jackson - Care of the Psyche
Michael Jay - The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness
David Porter - A Social History of Madness

FICTION:
Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Julie Halpern - Get Well Soon
John Katzenbach - The Madman’s Tale
Wally Lamb - I Know This Much Is True
Katharine Noel - Halfway House

MEMOIRS:
Kay Redfield Jamison - An Unquiet Mind
Rick Moody - The Black Veil
Sherwin B. Nuland - Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
Jane Pauley - Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
Elyn R. Saks - The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Ken Steele and Claire Berma - The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope

MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE FAMILY:
Madeleine Blais - Uphill Walkers
Michael Greenberg - Hurry Down Sunshine
Jay Neugeboren - Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival
Sharon O’Brien - The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance

POLICY AND TREATMENT:
Roy Richard Grinker - Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Leston Havens - A Safe Place
James Whitney Hicks, M.D. - 50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health
Jay Neugeboren - Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
Anand Pandya, M.D. and Craig Katz, M.D. - Disaster Psychiatry: Intervening When Nightmares Come True
Otto Wahl - Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness
Peter J. Weiden, M.D., in conjunction with Patricia L. Scheifler, M.S.W., Ronald J. Diamond, M.D. and Ruth Ross, M.D. - Breakthroughs in Antipsychotic Medications
Robert Whitaker - Mad In America
Michael Winerip - 9 Highland Road

UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN:
Norman Doidge, M.D. - The Brain that Changes Itself
Eric Kandel - In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Richard Restak - The New Mind