Mental Hospital


The Secret Scripture (McNulty Family)
Suicide Notes
Without MAlice
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Silent Patient
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Girl, Interrupted
Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
The Bell Jar
Cute but Creepy (Verfallen Asylum, #2)
Under the Bed
Separate Things: A Memoir
The Pawn and the Puppet (The Pawn and the Puppet #1)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathUnder Observation by Lisa BergerMount Misery by Samuel ShemPoems of Boston and just beyond by Douglas S. Holder
Live From McLean Hospital
6 books — 1 voter
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyCut by Patricia McCormickVeronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Fictional Mental Hospital Novels
259 books — 771 voters

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenDetour from Normal by Ken DicksonWasted by Marya HornbacherSybil by Flora Rheta SchreiberA Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Mental Hospital Nonfiction
88 books — 106 voters
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniImpulse by Ellen HopkinsTainted Shadows by Kendrick SimsCut by Patricia McCormickAsylum by Madeleine Roux
Young Adult Psychiatric Hospitals
102 books — 95 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsDracula by Bram StokerAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Victorian Asylums
59 books — 75 voters

Jonathan Harnisch
I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.
Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

Ruby Wax
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a ...more
Ruby Wax

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