10 Books That Changed My Thinking On Mental Health

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Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help)
1.  Making Us Crazy: DSM - The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (Psychology/self-help) by Stuart A. Kirk
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  "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)
2.  The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Contact (Perennial library) by Thomas Szasz
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  "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
3.  Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress by David Smail
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  "Argues that human distress is a product of society and not the human mind."
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Depression (Overcoming common problems)
4.  Depression (Overcoming common problems) by Paul A. Hauck
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  "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
5.  Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison by Dorothy Rowe
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  "The best depression book ever written."
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Psychiatric Drugs Explained
6.  Psychiatric Drugs Explained by David Healy MD FRCPsych
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  "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
7.  Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock and Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatry by Peter Breggin
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  "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)
8.  Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
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  "Interesting analysis of the role of power, knowledge and confinement in the development of psychiatry."
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Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress
9.  Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress by Terry Lynch
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  "A great starting point for a critique of biological psychiatry."
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Against Therapy Common Courage Press, Box 702, Monroe ME 04951
10.  Against Therapy Common Courage Press, Box 702, Monroe ME 04951 by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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  "Want to understand the ethics and limits of psychotherapy? Read this."
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