Asylums
A sociological and ethnographic examination of the social lives of mental patients in psychiatric hospitals.
Views on Mental Health
Many perspectives are available regarding the nature of mental illness and mental health.
The Center Cannot Hold
Whatever your image of an individual with schizophrenia, I am willing to bet it is not Elyn Saks.
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Robert Whitaker wants to know why the number of disabled mentally ill has tripled over the last two decades in the United States.
Mad in America
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. Robert Whitaker seeks to find out why.
Human Experience
John Russon draws on concepts from European Continental Philosophy to argue that neurosis is fundamental to the human condition itself.
Black Dogs and Blue Words
Through insightful rhetorical analysis, Kimberly Emmons investigates and reveals how discourses of depression get constructed.
Madness and Civilization, Part 2
This is a Michel Foucault’s masterpiece that delves into the historical development of what we call madness today.
Madness and Civilization, Part 1
This is a Michel Foucault’s masterpiece that delves into the historical development of what we call madness today.
An Unquiet Mind
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand.