Below is a list of books on the topic of mental health:-
1. BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY BEYOND RECOVERY’S MARK
Simon Baron Cohen, Zero Degree of Sympathy
Richard P Bentall, Doctoring the Mind
Richard P Bentall, Madness Explained
Rhena Branch / Rob Willson, Boosting Self-Esteem For Dummies
Gillian Butler / Tony Hope, Manage your Mind: The Mental fitness guide
John Cleese, Families and how to survive them
Dr Sabina Dosani, Defeat Depression
Richard Gross, Psychology: the Science of Mind and behaviour
Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap
Louise Hay, You can Heal your Life
Hilary Jacobs Hendel, It’s Not Always Depression
Hirsch and Weinberger, Schizophrenia
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
Jeremy Laurance, Pure Madness: How Fear Drives the Mental Health System
Leil Lowndes, How to make anyone like you
Mark Matousek, When You’re Falling, Dive: Using Pain to Transform Your Life
John C Maxwell, Winning with people
Douglas Miller / Phil Hailstone, The Positive Mental Attitude Pocket Book
John Mulligan, The Personal Management Handbook: How to make the most of your potential
Christine A Padesky / Dennis Greenberger, Mind over Mood
Raj Persaud, The Mind : A User’s Guide
Raj Persaud, Staying Sane
Raj Persaud, Make Yourself Irresistible
Trevor Powell, The Mental Health Handbook: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach
Dorothy Rowe, The Successful Self
Chris Williams, Flip it
Books mentioned through MIND courses/WRAP/involvement with services in Wirral from 2007 –
Mental Health Day 2007
Steve Biddulph, Manhood
Thomas A Harris, I’m OK, you’re OK
Thomas A Harris, Staying OK
Margaret Hough, Counselling Skills and Theory
Books/authors mentioned at WRAP 2008-10
Paul McGee, SUMO: The Straight talking guide to creating and enjoying a brilliant life
David L Preston, 363 Steps to Self Confidence
Books mentioned on courses at MIND
POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH
Abraham Hicks, The Secret
FOOD AND MOOD
A Geary, Food and Mood: Handbook
Patrick Holford, The Optimum Nutritional Bible
GROWTH AND GOALSETTING
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
LOVE
Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages : The Secret to Love That Lasts
SELF-ESTEEM
Eric Berne, Games People Play : The Psychology of Human Relationships
Terry Cole Whittaker, What you think of me is none of my business
Alice Miller, For your Own Good
WORDS THAT CHANGE MINDS
Arjuna Ardagh, Leap before you look : 72 Shortcuts for Getting out of your mind and into the moment
John Medina, Brain Rules
Need to Know series of books
THE CORE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS
Connirae Andreas and Tamara Andreas, The Core transformation Process
2. BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY BEYOND RECOVERY’S EDWARD
Anti-psychiatry books or alternative (eg social, spiritual or psychological) takes on extreme mental states
BOOKS I HAVE READ
Richard P Bentall, Doctoring the Mind
Richard P Bentall, Madness Explained
Peter Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why To Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
Joseph Glenmullen, Coming Off Antidepressants
The Icarus Project Guides (Available as free downloads from their website, http://www.theicarusproject.net) such as Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, Madness and Oppression and Navigating The Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap Of Bipolar Worlds
Peter Lehmann (ed.), Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Peter Lehmann (ed.), Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff and Richard Bentall, A Straight Talking Introduction To Psychiatric Drugs
Roy Porter, Madness: A Brief History
Roy Porter, The Faber Book Of Madness
BOOKS I HAVE HAD RECOMMENDED TO ME
Bandler and Grinder, Frogs Into Princes
Eric Berne, Games People Play
Sean Blackwell, Am I bipolar or waking up?
Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry
Stephen Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants
Stephen Buhner, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm
Stephen Buhner, Ensouling Language
Bonnie Burstow, Psychiatry Interrogated
Bonnie Burstow, The Revolt Against Psychiatry
Paula Caplan, They Say You’re Crazy
Carlos Castenada, The Teachings Of Don Juan
Horatio Clare, Heavy Light
Ty Colbert, Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts
Manuel Cordova-Rios, Wizard of the Upper Amazon
Sera Davidow, Peer Respite Handbook
James Davies, Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
James Davies, The Sedated Society
M Eliade, Shamanism
Jules Evans and Tim Read (editors), Breaking Open
Nathan Filer, The Heartland
Nathan Filer, This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
Allen Frances, Saving Normal
Paul Gilbert, The Compassionate Mind
Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma
Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl
Jim Gottstein, The Zyprexa Papers
Peter Gotzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime
Peter Gotzsche, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs
Dr Alec Grant, Fran Biley and Hannah Walker (eds.), Our Encounters With Madness
Stanislav Grof, Realms Of The Human Unconscious
Dmitriy Gutkovich, Life With Voices
Patrick Hahn, Madness and Genetic Determinism
Patrick Hahn, Prescription For Sorrow
Joan Halifax, Shamanic Voices
Will Hall, Outside Mental Health
Michael J Harner, The Way of the Shamen
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers
Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap
Mark Hayward, Overcoming Distressing Voices
David Healy, Let Them Eat Prozac
David Healy / Joanna Le Noury and Julie Wood, Children of The Cure
Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
James Hillman, The Soul’s Code
Hive Mutual Support Network, Much Madness
Noel Hunter, Trauma and Madness In Mental Health Services
Grace Jackson, Drug-Induced Dementia
Grace Jackson, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs
Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry
Carl Gustav Jung, The Undiscovered Self
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Bartram Karon, Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
Otto Kernberg, Love Relations
Peter Kinderman, The New Laws of Psychology
Jack Kornfield, After The Ecstasy, The Laundry
Wouter Kusters, A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking
Wouter Kusters, Pure Madness
R D Laing, The Divided Self
R D Laing, The Politics of Experience
Del Loewenthal (ed.), Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling
Dr Terry Lynch, Selfhood
Dr Terry Lynch, The Systematic Corruption of Global Mental Health
Margaret Mahler, The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant
Clancy McKenzie, Delayed PTSD from Infancy
Shery Mead, Intentional Peer Support
Joanna Moncrieff, The Bitterest Pills
Joanna Moncrieff, The Myth Of The Chemical Cure: A Critique Of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Steven Pinker, How The Mind Works
Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind
N Putman and B Martindale (eds. – ISPS), Open Dialogue for Psychosis
John Read and Jacqui Dillon (eds.), Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis
Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test
Dorothy Rowe, Beyond Fear
Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney (eds.), Searching For A Rose Garden
Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Jacqui Schiff, Cathexis Reader
PJ Scott, Malcharist
M Scott Peck, The People of the Lie
Andrew Scull, Madness In Civilisation
Harold Searles, Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects
Dolly Sen, DSM69
Gary Sidley, Tales From The Madhouse
Evelyn Sommers, Acceptance: The Defining Voice of Validation
Hyman Spotnitz, Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions
Jacob Stegenga, Medical Nihilism
Dr Sandra Steingard (ed.), Critical Psychiatry
For a psychological approach to understanding bipolar disorder The British Psychological Society has published the following report (this link leads to a download of the pdf) http://ubd.spectrumdevelopment.org.uk/understandingbipolar.pdf
Sami Timimi, Insane Medicine
Craig Wagner, Choices In Recovery
Alan Watts, Become What You Are
Claire Weekes, Peace From Nervous Suffering
John Weir Perry, The Far Side of Madness
Mary Welford, Compassion Focused Therapy for Dummies
Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whitaker, Mad In America
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Inner Level
Paris Williams, Rethinking Madness
Dion Zessin, Codex Alternus: A Research Collection Of Alternative and Complimentary Treatments for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Associated Drug-Induced Side Effects
Nutrition Themed
Patrick Holford – Optimum Nutrition For The Mind
Patrick Holford – The Feel Good Factor
B Kaplan and J Rucklidge – The Better Brain
Carl C Pfeiffer – Nutrition and Mental Illness
Paul Pitchford – Healing with Whole Foods
Jen Unwin – Fork in the Road: A Hopeful Guide to Food Freedom
Dr William J Walsh – Nutrient Power
Fiction
Clifford Beers – A Mind that Found Itself
Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art
Nathan Filer – The Shock of the Fall
Hannah Green / Joanne Greenberg – I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Susanna Kaysen – Girl Interrupted
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
