Books and Film

Theory and/or History of Madness

Bentall, R. P. (2003). Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature. London: Penguin Books.

Boyle, M. (1992; expanded 2nd ed., 2003). Schizophrenia—A scientific delusion? London: Routledge.

Chadwick, P. (1997). Schizophrenia: The positive perspective. London: Routledge.

Chadwick, P. K. (1992). Borderline: A psychological study of paranoia and delusional thinking. London: Routledge.

Clarke, I. (2008). Madness, mystery and the survival of God. Winchester, UK: O Books.

Clarke, I. (Ed.) (2010). Psychosis and spirituality: Consolidating the new paradigm (2nd ed.). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Farber, S. (1993). Madness, heresy, and the rumor of angels: The revolt against the mental health system. Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing.

Farber, S. (2012). The spiritual gift of madness: The failure of psychiatry and the rise of the mad pride movement. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.

Geekie, J., & Read, J. (2009). Making sense of madness: Contesting the meaning of schizophrenia. New York, NY: Routledge.

Goodbread, Joseph (2008). Living on the edge: The mythical, spiritual, and philosophical roots of social Marginality (Health and human development). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Grof, C., & Grof, S. (Eds.) (1989). Spiritual emergency. New York, NY: Tarcher.
Hornstein, Gail A. (2009). Agnes's jacket: A psychologist's search for the meanings of madness. New York: Rodale Books.

Icarus Project, The. (Ed.) (n.d.). Navigating the space between brilliance and madness: A roadmap and reader to bipolar worlds (available from www.theicarusproject.net)
ISPS. [Psychosis book series—a very comprehensive and scholarly series of books on psychosis]. (Available at www.routledgementalhealth.com/isps/)

Laing, R.D. (1967). The politics of experience. New York: Pantheon Books.

Laing, R. D. (1969). The divided self. London: Penguin Group.

Levine, B. (2001). Commonsense rebellion: Debunking psychiatry, confronting society: An A to Z guide to rehumanizing our lives. New York: Continuum.

Mindell. A. (2008). City shadows: Psychological interventions in psychiatry. New York, NY: Routledge.

Perry, J. W. (1999). Trials of the visionary mind. State University of New York Press.

Podvoll, E. (1990). Recovering sanity: A compassionate approach to understanding and treating psychosis. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Read, J., Mosher, L. R., & Bentall, R. P. (Eds.) (2004). Models of madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to schizophrenia. New York: Routledge.

Watters, Ethan. (2010). Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche. New York: Free Press.

Whitaker, R. (2002). Mad in America. New York: Basic Books.

Biographies and Autobiographies

Bassman, R. (2007). A fight to be: A psychologist’s experience from both sides of the locked door. New York, NY: Tantamount Press.

Beers, C. W. (1981). A mind that found itself. Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press.

Clover. (1999). Escape from psychiatry: The autobiography of Clover. Ignacio, CO: Rainbow Pots and Press.

[DVD] Cotton, T. (Director) There is a fault in reality? [An exploration of the stories of three people who struggled with psychosis]. Available from www.tigerlilyfilms.com

Dorman, D. (2003). Dante’s cure. New York, NY: Other Press.

Greenberg, J. (1964). I never promised you a rose garden. Chicago: Signet.

Modrow, J. (2003). How to become a schizophrenic: The case against biological psychiatry. Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press.

Penney, D., & Stastny, P. The lives they left behind: Suitcases from a state hospital attic. New York: Bellevue Literary Press.

[DVD] Rosenthal, K. (Producer). (2010). Crooked Beauty [a poetic documentary of Ashley McNamara’s transformative journey from psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy]. Available from  www.crookedbeauty.com  

Sechehaye, M. (1951). Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl. New York, NY: Meridian.

Click Here  for a link to Gail Hornstein's Bibliography of over 1,000 autobiographies of madness

Alternative Treatment Models

Bloom, S. (1997). Creating sanctuary: Towards the evolution of safe communities. London: Routledge.

Chadwick, P., Birchwood, M. J. & Trower, P. (1999). Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology). New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Coleman, R., Smith, M. and Good, J. (2003). Psychiatric first aid in psychosis: A handbook for nurses, carers and people distressed by psychotic experience (2nd ed.). Lewis, Scotland: P&P Press (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).

Greek, M. (2012). Schizophrenia: A blueprint for recovery. Athens, OH: Milt Greek.

Karon, B. P., & VandenBos, G. (1996). Psychotherapy of schizophrenia: The treatment of choice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc.

Larkin, W. and Morrison, A. (2005). Trauma and psychosis: New directions for theory and therapy. Routledge: London.

[DVD] Mackler, D. (Producer). (2008). Take these broken wings: Recovery from Schizophrenia without medication. (Available from www.iraresoul.com)

[DVD] Mackler, D. (Producer). (2011). Healing homes: An alternative, Swedish model for healing psychosis. (Available from www.iraresoul.com)

[DVD] Mackler, D. (Producer). (2011). Open Dialogue: An alternative, Finnish approach to healing psychosis. (Available from www.iraresoul.com)

Mackler, D., & Morrissey, M. (2010). A Way Out of Madness: Dealing with Your Family After You've Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.

Mosher. L. R., & Hendrix, V. (with Fort, D. C.) (2004). Soteria: Through madness to deliverance. USA: Authors.

[DVD] Undercurrents (Producer). Evolving Minds—Psychosis and spirituality. (Available from www.undercurrents.org/minds.html)

Stastny, P. & Lehmann, P. (2007). Alternatives beyond psychiatry (available from www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com).

Support Specifically for Hearing Voices

Coleman, R. & Smith, M. (2006) Working with voices—Victim to victor (2nd ed). Lewis, Scotland: P&P Press (available from www.workingtorecovery.co.uk).

Corstens, D., May, R. and Longden, E. (2007). Talking with voices: The voice dialoguing manual (available from www.intervoiceonline.org).

Deegan, Patricia. (n.d.) Coping with voices: Self-help strategies for people who hear voices that are distressing (available from National Empowerment Center, www.power2u.org).

Downs, Julie (ed.). (2001). Coping with voices and visions and starting and supporting hearing voices groups. Manchester, UK: Hearing Voices Network (available from www.hearing-voices.org).

Escher, Sandra and Marius Romme. (2010). Children hearing voices: What you need to know and what you can do (available from www.pccs-books.co.uk).

Romme, M. and S. Escher. (2000). Making sense of voices: A guide for mental health professionals working with voice-hearers (includes the Maastricht Interview). London: MIND Publications.

Romme, Marius, Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dirk Corstens, and Mervyn Morris (eds.). (2009). Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery (available from www.pccs-books.co.uk).

Smith, Daniel. (2007). Muses, madmen, and prophets: Rethinking the history, science, and meaning of auditory hallucination. New York: Penguin Press.

Watkins, John. (1998). Hearing Voices: A Common Human Experience. Melbourne, Australia: Hill of Content.

Psychiatric Drugs

Bentall, R. (2009). Doctoring the mind. New York: New York University Press

Breggin, P. (2008). Brain-disabling treatments in psychiatry: Drugs, electroshock and the psychopharmaceutical complex. New York, NY: Springer Publication Company.

Breggin, P. (2008). Medication madness: The role of psychiatric drugs in cases of violence, suicide, and crime. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.

Breggin, P. (2013). Psychiatric drug withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Healy, D. (2012). Pharmageddon. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

The Icarus Project and Freedom Center (n.d.). Harm reduction guide to coming off psychiatric drugs (available FREE from www.theicarusproject.net)

Lehmann, P. (Ed.). (2002). Coming off psychiatric drugs (available from www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com).

Whitaker, R. (2010). Anatomy of an epidemic: Magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America. New York: Crown Books.

Nonduality

Bohm, D., & Hiley, B. J. (1993). The undivided universe. New York, NY: Routledge.

Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of physics: An exploration of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism (5th ed., updated). Boston: Shambhalla Publications.

[DVD] Chasse, B., & Vicente, M. (Directors). (2004). What the bleep do we know!? [documentary]. USA: 20th Century Fox.

Goswami, A. (1993). The self-aware universe: How consciousness creates the material world. New York, NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.

Mindell, A. (2000). Quantum Mind: The edge between physics and psychology. Portland, Oregon: Lao Tse Press.

Prendergast, J. J., Fenner, P., & Krystal, S. (Eds.). (2003). The sacred mirror: Nondual wisdom and psychotherapy. St. Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House.

Prendergast, J. J., & Bradford, K. G. (Eds.) (2007). Listening from the heart of silence: Nondual wisdom and psychotherapy, Volume 2. St. Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House.
[DVD] Shadyac, T. (Director). (2009). I am. USA: Gaiam.

Ricard, M., & Thuan, T. X. (2001). The quantum and the lotus: A journey to the frontiers where science and Buddhism meet. New York: Three Rivers Press.

Attachment Theory

Karen, R. K. (1994). Becoming attached: First relationships and how they shape our capacity to love. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Schore, A. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self: The neurobiology of emotional development. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Siegel, D.J., & Hartzell, M. (2003). Parenting from the inside out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive. New York: Penguin Putnam.

Siegel, D.J. (2012). The developing mind, second edition: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are. New York: Guilford Press

Solomon, M., & Siegel, D.J. (Eds.). (2003). Healing trauma: Attachment, mind, body and brain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Wallin, D. J. (2007). Attachment in psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press.

Western Existential Theory

Becker, E. (1973). The denial of death. New York, NY: Free Press Paperbacks.

May, R. (1977). The meaning of anxiety. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Schneider, K. J. (1999). The paradoxical self: Toward an understanding of our contradictory nature. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books.

Schneider, K. J. (2009). Awakening to awe: Personal stories of profound transformation. United Kingdom: Jason Aronson.

Yalom, I. D. (1980). Existential psychotherapy. USA: Basic Books.

Mindfulness and Buddhist-based Psychology

Boyce, B. & Shambhala Sun (2011). The mindfulness revolution: Leading psychologists, scientists, artists, and meditation teachers on the power of mindfulness in daily life. New York: Random House Publications, Inc.

Germer, C. K., Siegel, R. D., & Fulton, P. R. (Eds.). (2005). Mindfulness and psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press.

Goldstein, J (1994). Insight meditation: The practice of Freedom. Boston & London: Shambhalla

Gunaratana, B. H. (2002) . Mindfulness in plain English. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.

Hart, W. (1987). The art of living: Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. New York: Bantam Dell.

Kabat-Zinn, J. (2012). Mindfulness for beginners: Reclaiming the present moment--and your life. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc.

Kaklauskas, F. J., Nimanheminda, S., Hoffman, S, & MacAndrew, S. J. (Eds.). (2008). Brilliant sanity: Buddhist approaches to psychotherapy. Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

Kornfield, J. (2008). The wise heart: A guide to the universal teachings of Buddhist psychology. New York: Bantam Books.

Nisker, W. (1998). Buddha’s Nature: A practical guide to discovering your place in the cosmos. New York: Bantam Books.

Siegel, D.J. (2007). The mindful brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Siegel, D. J. (2010). The mindful therapist: A clinician’s guide to mindsight and neural integration. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Welwood, J. (2002). Toward a psychology of awakening: Buddhism, psychotherapy, and the path of personal and spiritual transformation. Boston & London: Shambhala.