Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions.

Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with criteria listed in diagnostic manuals such as the widely used Diagnostic and Statistica
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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
A Matter of Death and Life
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
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Głośnik w głowie. O leczeniu psychiatrycznym w Polsce
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
ADHD. Mózg łowcy i inne supermoce
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Man's Search for Meaning
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
The Bell Jar
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Girl, Interrupted
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. LeeI Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah  GreenMade You Up by Francesca ZappiaThe Girl in the Maze by R.K. JacksonDazzled by Darkness by Erica Miles
Schizophrenic Characters
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Trampling the Snake by Liz          WilliamsWalking Beside the Edge by Lori A Caputo-HartfordCognitive Behavior Therapy by Judith S. BeckMind Over Mood by Dennis GreenbergerProlonged Exposure Therapy for Ptsd by Edna B. Foa
Best Therapy Books
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Kick by C.D. ReissThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenIt's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned VizziniThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Reading About Psychiatric Wards
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The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
Hervey M. Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity

Thomas Szasz
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.
Thomas Szasz

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