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Best Eating Disorder Books

463 books — 1,002 voters

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

A Falência, The English Edition, The Bankruptcy, Translated B... by Júlia Lopes de Almeida

Feminist critiques of psychology and psychiatry

12 books — 6 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Tuskegee Experiments by Michael V. Uschan

Medical and Psychiatric Scandals

69 books — 7 voters

The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron

Punk Rock & Mental Illness Vol. 1 A Love Story More Stable Th... by Emily Ryan

YA Novels that Poorly Portray Mental Illness

16 books — 10 voters

A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton

The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

Lobotomies in Fiction

4 books — 1 voter

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Heroes with mental illness

276 books — 157 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Psychiatric”

“ In psychiatric Hospitals flow more tears than in Nurseries. ”
― Sino Melo

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“ Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn bit better about myself than I did about being Citizen West. Citizen West, Citizen Kane, Sugar Ray Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson miso, miso soup, black bean soup, black sticky soup, black sticky me. Yeah. Inside I was still a fetid and festering corpse covered in sticky blackness, still mired in putrid shame and scorching self-hatred. I could write an 86-page essay comparing the features ...more ”
― Cameron West, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple

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