Hiding in Plain Sight book list

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Reading List suggestion from Hiding In Plain Sight PBS screening

  • The Age of Anxiety by W.H. Auden
  • Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the
  • Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
  • Building Happier Kids by Hansa Bharghava, MD, FAAP
  • The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
  • Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500 by Hugh Cunningham
  • A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick Kennedy and Stephen Fried
  • Darkness Visible by William Styron
  • David’s Inferno, My Journey through the Dark Woods of Depression by David Blistein
  • Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel
  • The History of Childhood by James Marten
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
  • January First by Michael Schofield
  • Lost Connections by Johann Hari
  • The Mad Among Us, A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill by Gerald N. Grob
  • Madhouse, A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
  • Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull
  • Mental Health in America: A Reference Handbook by Donna Kemp
  • Mental Illness by Victoria Sherrow
  • Mind Fixers, Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for The Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington
  • Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel
  • Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel
  • Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
  • No One Cares About Crazy People by Ron Powers
  • Psyche On The Skin, A History of Self-Harm by Sarah Chaney
  • Psychiatry and Its Discontents by Andrew Scull
  • Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
  • Social (In)justice and Mental Health Edited by Ruth S Shim, MD, MPH and Sarah Y. Vinson, MD, EDS Q The Teenage Brain by Frances Jensen
  • Ten Days in A Mad-House by Nellie Bly
  • An Unquiet Mind, A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • You Are Not Alone by Kenneth Duckworth, MD
  • Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak, PhD & Sarah Ackerly