• A Biography of Loneliness: A History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti
• A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
• An Introduction to the Study of the Mind by Walter S. Athearn
• Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide by Bev Cobain
• How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin (2023)
• Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
• Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Professor Andrew Scull
• Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips (2012)
• Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness by Rebecca Shannonhouse
• Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics by R.D. Laing, Aaron Esteron
  • The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise by R.D. Laing
• Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness by David A. Karp
• The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell (2024)
• The Art of Loving by Eric Fromm
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• The Discovery of the Art of the Insane by John M. MacGregor
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate, Daniel Mate
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
• This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond by Mike Jay
• Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Memoirs & Auto-Biographies:

• A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
• A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia by Sandy Allen
• Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
• Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
• Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (2024)
• Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley (2024)
• In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
• Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
• Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen
• Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
• Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
• Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel B. Smith
• My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
• ✔ One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival by Donald Altrim (2021)
• Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
• Shaken: A Story of Emotional Abuse and Depression by Kerry Connelly
• Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir by Sally Brampton
• Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell
• Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv (2022)
• Teenage Degenerate by S.C. Sterling
• The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
• The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle by Catherine Lockwood
• The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times by Barbara Taylor
• The Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam
• The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
• The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
• Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher