Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh
10 best books like Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh (D.A. Stern): Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Bedlam: London and its Mad, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter, The Language of Goldfish, Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination, The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, Night of the Assholes, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
| Author | Paul R. Linde |
| ISBN | 0071407995 |
"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...
Bedlam: London and its Mad
| Author | Catharine Arnold |
| ISBN | 1847370004 |
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero...
| Author | Michael A. Hoffman II |
| ISBN | 0970378416 |
From 007 to 2001, from Dealey Plaza to the Apollo Moon Flight, from the barrel of a Bulldog .44 to the corridors of the pyramids of Sirius; from the secret symbolism of Jack the Ripper to the public symbolism of the first atomic bomb blast, this work illuminates the crimes and command ideology of the masonic...
| Author | Susan Sheehan |
| ISBN | 0394713788 |
"Sylvia Frumkin," a highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter, followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her, listening to her monologues,...
| Author | Matt Paxton |
| ISBN | 0399536655 |
On the front lines with extreme hoarders
The Secret Lives of Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country. It is a behind-the-scenes look at this hidden epidemic- what it means, how to recognize it before it gets...
Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...
| Author | Ronald K. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0452269539 |
A beautiful pianist hears her music drowned out by the voice of God. A young woman calmly watches the gang rape of her girlfriend and herself. A shy schoolboy turns to his invisible best friend to wreak bloody vengeance. In Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel shows how even the sober brain can create the...
| Author | Cheryl Paradis |
| ISBN | 0806531053 |
The defendant told the jury that he did not kill girlfriend. He "did," however, admit to dismembering her, boiling her bones, and hiding them in the Port Authority locker." At the heart of countless crimes lies the mystery of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the...
| Author | Kevin L. Donihe |
| ISBN | 1936383225 |
The Assholes are coming to get you, Barbara . . . From Wonderland Award Winner Kevin L. Donihe, comes a hilarious tribute to Night of the Living Dead A plague of assholes is infecting the countryside. Normal everyday people are transforming into jerks, snobs, dicks, and douchebags. And they all have...
Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
These compelling authentic documents are now available for the first time in one volume -- an aesthetic testimony to the emotion and logic of a murderer's mind, a mind filled with terror and hatred, absurdity and horror, pathos and iniquity."Brian King compiled these writings and arranged them in...
| Author | Clark Kline |
| ISBN | 0615473962 |
Five brutal narratives detail the story of obsession and redemption.
Young, vulnerable and struggling with psychological disorders, five characters share their sometimes brutal narratives in Anti-Depressant. Each holds a piece of the other’s puzzle, but the truth blurs with every...
| Author | Brian Martinez |
| ISBN | 1453713417 |
The debut novel from Brian Martinez, A Chemical Fire is a minimalist, noir vision of the apocalypse.
The story unfolds through the eyes of John Cotard, a science teacher who drugs his life away. After a car accident turns him onto prescription painkillers he allows first his job, then his marriage...
Bad Therapy: Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
| Author | Jeffrey A. Kottler |
| ISBN | 0415933234 |
Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss...
| Author | Jack El-Hai |
| ISBN | 0470098309 |
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy,...
| Author | Jeffrey L. Geller |
| ISBN | 0385474237 |
The 26 women who tell their stories here were incarcerated against their will, often by male family members, for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day. The authors' accompanying history of both societal and psychiatric standards for women reveals the degree to...
| Author | Dominick Bosco |
| ISBN | 1559721138 |
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...
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
| Author | Edward Shorter |
| ISBN | 0471245313 |
From Back Cover:
In A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. He paints vivid...
| Author | Jeff Bell |
| ISBN | 1592853714 |
The revealing story of one man's struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and his hard-won recovery.
Rewind, Replay, Repeat is the revealing story of Jeff Bell's struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and his hard-won recovery. Nagging doubt: It's a part of everyday...
| Author | Claire Sylvia |
| ISBN | 0316821497 |
After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged...
| Author | Michael T. Keene |
| ISBN | 1939688019 |
Discover the details of 19th-Century insane asylums in Michael Keene's latest historical venture, "Mad House". With vivid detail and deep research, readers will travel through the lineage and architecture of the asylums in New York.
Walking in the footsteps of history's mentally ill,...
The Complex: Mapping America's Military-Industrial-Technological-Entertainment-Academic-Media-Corporate Matrix
| Author | Nick Turse |
| ISBN | 0805078967 |
A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life--a real-world Matrix come alive
Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates...
| Author | Michael Powell |
| ISBN | 0760762783 |
An amusing book filled with random pieces related to the brain (e.g. parts of the brain, brain health, study tips, etc.) Some of them are kind of useful and fun to read about it, but the book would sometimes take a sharp turn to the absurd and unscientific, such as the section on mind-bending spoons or how...
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 1937163199 |
In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness—and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as “mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many—maybe even most—cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often...
| Author | Christopher J. Payne |
| ISBN | 0262013495 |
For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients....
| Author | Frederick L. Covan |
| ISBN | 0449223663 |
At first this book struck me as way too voyeuristic and "I'm the wise, sane, totally awesome dude running the show and of course I'm witty and everything goes well due to my great supervising."
The book covers a year in the life of interns at Bellevue hospital as told by the chief psychologist....
