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10 best books like Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (Thomas F. Oltmanns): Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, An Introduction to Poetry, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery, Love, Sara, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind, The Writer's Guide to Psychology: How to Write Accurately about Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior, Evolution and Human Behavior, Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital

Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
AuthorPaul R. Linde
ISBN0071407995
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.

An...
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
AuthorPeter K. Unger
ISBN0195108590
By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral...
An Introduction to Poetry
AuthorX.J. Kennedy
ISBN0321470346
Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 12e, continues to inspire readers and writers with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.  This bestselling anthology includes more than 500 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic...
Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
AuthorGail Griffith
ISBN0060598662
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
Love, Sara
AuthorMary Beth Lundgren
ISBN0805067973
"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...
Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
AuthorPaul Raeburn
ISBN0767914384
In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.

Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted...
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
AuthorEdwin S. Shneidman
ISBN0195172736
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page...
The Writer's Guide to Psychology: How to Write Accurately about Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior
AuthorCarolyn Kaufman
ISBN1884995683
Because authors tend to write about seriously flawed people, we often delve into the realm of psychology, intentionally or not. Stories in a wide array of genres feature psychologists, psychiatrists, psychopaths, schizophrenics, and any number of other characters that fall within the pale of modern...
Evolution and Human Behavior
AuthorJohn Cartwright
ISBN0262531704
The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest in the application of evolutionary thinking to the study of human behavior. This introductory book provides an overview of the key theoretical principles of human sociobiology and evolutionary psychology and shows how they illuminate the ways humans...
Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital
AuthorDominick Bosco
ISBN1559721138
This is a novel that NEEDED to be written, and Dominick Bosco has done an incredibly fine job of it.

He has had a compassionate and lengthy sabbatical studying health care for the mentally ill at first hand, and presents the whole panoramic sweep of it.

From multiple points of view - in...
Waking Up, Alive
AuthorRichard A. Heckler
ISBN0345400356
In this extraordinary book, psychologist Richard A. Heckler tells the whole story of the descent, the attempt, and the return to life. He gives new depth to our understanding of the descent—the withdrawal from relationships, the facade of normalcy, and the suicidal trance. For the first time, we...
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
AuthorKurt Snyder
ISBN0195311221
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On
AuthorDennis DiClaudio
ISBN0760366306
Giving neurotics everywhere something to worry about, The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On profiles more than 40 of the most outrageous and yet eerily familiar psychological disorders—a fascinating array of obsessions, compulsions, phobias, fixations,...
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
AuthorMary Beth Pfeiffer
ISBN0786717459
Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently punished again for behavior that is...
Abnormal Psychology
AuthorGerald C. Davison
Now in its Ninth Edition, Abnormal Psychology gives students the opportunity to explore the latest theories and research in our ever-changing search for answers to the complex questions of psychopathology. The authors invite students to search for clues, follow-up on hunches, evaluate evidence,...
Abnormal Psychology
AuthorJames N. Butcher
ISBN0205497918
Abnormal Psychology is considered the most authoritative and comprehensive text in its field; it set the standard for the course. The author team includes the most preeminent and respected researchers in abnormal psychology today. Now, the exciting revision of this classic introduces new topics...
Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement
AuthorRonald Jay Cohen
ISBN0073129097
"Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement" is the standard-setting text that through seven editions has overviewed measurement in psychology with unrivaled depth, breadth, and clarity. Logically organized and lucidly written, this book acquaints readers...
Theory and Practice of Group Counseling
AuthorGerald Corey
ISBN0840033869
With the guidance of world-renowned counseling author, teacher, and practitioner Gerald Corey, best-selling Theory AND PRACTICE OF GROUP COUNSELING, 8e equips readers with the knowledge and skills for effective group counseling and leadership. You'll learn key theoretical approaches to group...
Social Psychology
AuthorDavid G. Myers
ISBN0073531898
I wish this kind of intelligent, wide-ranging (800pp) and eye-opening textbook had been around when I was studying business some 35 years ago. I would have devoted more time since then to following the developments of psychology, instead of just deducting from the ineptitude of what was taught to us...
Life-Span Human Development
AuthorCarol K. Sigelman
ISBN0534553818
Known for its clear, straightforward writing style, comprehensive coverage, strong and current research-based approach, and excellent visuals and tables, this life-span development text offers a topical organization at the chapter level and a consistent chronological presentation within...
Cognitive Psychology and its Implications
AuthorJohn R. Anderson
ISBN0716701103
Anderson offers systematic and accessible presentation of the theoretical foundations of higher mental processes, with each important idea made concrete by specific examples and experiments. Focusing on knowledge representation as the central issue of cognition research, the book emphasizes...
Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling
AuthorDavid Canter
ISBN0753509261
Apparently one of the main players in the field of geographical profiling, David Canter has taken this as the theme for this book, setting out the case for its (and his) preeminence with varying effect. This half success was coloured by Canter's propensity to go off on tangents that seemed unrelated...
Justice: A Reader
AuthorMichael J. Sandel
ISBN0195335120
Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers from the classical era up to the present, the collection provides a thematic overview of the concept of justice. Moreover, Sandel's organization of the readings...
Vernon Can Read!
AuthorVernon E. Jordan Jr.
A number-one Washington Post bestseller, this memoir is the unforgettable story of a life and its times. As a student in Atlanta, Vernon Jordan had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man's afternoon naps, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. "Vernon...
The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Understanding Lisbeth Salander and Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy
AuthorRobin S. Rosenberg
ISBN1936661349
Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her—and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy—so...
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