Mental Health

Arnaud, Sabine. On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 & 1820. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Breggin, Peter. Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the “New Psychiatry.” New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1991.

Cvetkovich, Ann. Depression: A Public Feeling. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012.

Gilman, Sander et al., eds. Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Gonaver, Wendy. The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Harrington, Anne. Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019.

Harrington, Anne. The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Harrington, Anne and Arthur Zajonc, eds. The Dalai Lama at MIT. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Harrington, Anne. The Placebo Effect. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Harrington, Anne. Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain. Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 1989.

Nakamura, Karen. A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Segrest, Mab. Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum. New York: The New Press, 2020.

Summers, Martin. Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in a Nation’s Capital. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Torrey, E. Fuller. American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Trent, James W. and Steven Noll, eds. Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2004.