Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Mental Illness
07 Aug 2021 18:01
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See also: Freud; Jung; Neuropsychiatry; Persuasion; Possession; Religious Conversion; The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and Recovered Memories
- Recommended (very misc.):
- Nancy Andreasen, The Broken Brain
- Denny Borsboom, Angélique O. J. Cramer, Verena D. Schmittmann, Sacha Epskamp and Lourens J. Waldorp, "The Small World of Psychopathology", PLOS ONE 6 (2011): e27407 [My comments: Major depression, qu'est-ce que c'est?]
- Robyn M. Dawes, House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
- Edward Dolnick, Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
- Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterial Epidemics and Modern Media
- Carol Tavris, "Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists," Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 February 2003
- Ethan Watters and Richards Ofshe, Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried
- To read:
- Frank Bures, The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
- Rowland Folensbee, The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies
- Joel and Ian Gold, Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
- George Graham, Disordered Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness
- Ellen Herman, The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts
- Allan V. Horwitz, DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible
- Eva Moskowitz, In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession With Self-Fulfillment
- Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
- Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- Edward Shorter, From the Mind into the Body: The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms
- E. Fuller Torrey
- Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists
- Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
- Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
