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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.

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Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

A riveting social and medical history of madness in America, from the seventeenth century to today. In Mad in America , medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries, and quite possibly worse than asylum patients did in the early nineteenth century. With a muckraker's passion, Whitaker... (more)

Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (Vintage)

Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (Vintage)

by Susan Sheehan

" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia." -- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic "Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in anti out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her listening to her... (more)

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Dave Grossman

The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews,... (more)

Cry of the Invisible: Writings from the Homeless and Survivors of Psychiatric Hospitals

A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

I am not telling the story of my life just to write a book. I tell it because it seems my plain duty to do so. A narrow escape from death and a seemingly miraculous return to health after an apparently fatal illness are enough to make a man ask himself: For what purpose was my life spared? That question I have asked myself, and this book is, in part, an answer.

Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace

Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace

by Milton Mueller

In Ruling the Root , Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed and voluntaristic network of networks.... (more)

Loony Bin Trip

by Kate Millett

"The Loony-Bin Trip" is the powerful, staggeringly personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after falling under an ascription of manic depression. Compulsively readable, Millett's journey into 'that other region' traverses a fearful terrain of self-doubt, futility, and alienation. Beginning with the summer at her farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, when she decides to prove her sanity by... (more)

And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's ChildrenLouise Armstrong

And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children

by Louise Armstrong

An expose+a7 of the multibillion-dollar industry that imprisons America's children for profit describes what goes on at the psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and schools of the emotionally disturbed.

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