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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron Paperback Book

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's...

Publication Date: Jan 1990

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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism

by Dawn Prince-Hughes

A woman afflicted with Asperger's syndrome--a form of autism--writes eloquently about her work with gorillas. One aspect of her condition is that she is able to interact better with animals than with people, and after a life of being abused and even...

Publication Date: Mar 2005

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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

by Deborah Blum

What if a world-renowned professor of psychology at Harvard University, a doctor and scientist acclaimed as one of the leading intellects of the time, suddenly announced that he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, to great...

Publication Date: Jun 2007

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Marx for Beginners

by Rius

A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class...

Publication Date: Jul 2003

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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

by Kyoko Mori

Twelve penetrating, painful essays explore the author's codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.

Publication Date: Apr 1999

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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy

by Annie G. Rogers

In this brave, inconoclastic, and utterly unique book, a Harvard professor of human delvelopment and psychology chronicles her her personal drama as a young psychology intern assigned to treat a severely disturbed five-year-old boy. Powerful and...

Publication Date: Aug 1996

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Anna Freud: The Dream Of Psychoanalysis (Radcliffe Biography Series)

by Robert Coles

Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was the warm guide, the ego ideal, the "good parent" for her young patients. Drawing on...

Publication Date: Apr 1993

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Bakunin: The Creative Passion

by Mark Leier

'Unfailingly informative . . . and frequently exciting, Leier's biography reintroduces a fascinating revolutionary, knowledge of whose ideas helps one place such recent phenomena as the World Trade Organization protests in meaningful historical...

Publication Date: Dec 2009

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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

by Michael Paterniti

Based on an award-winning article for Harper's magazine, this accessible science book chronicles a reporter's coast-to-coast journey with pieces of Einstein's brain--stored in Tupperware in the trunk of his Buick Skylark--and the 84 year-old...

Publication Date: Aug 2005

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Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind

by Peter D. Kramer

Often referred to as 'the father of psychoanalysis,' Sigmund Freud championed the 'talking cure' and charted the human unconscious. But though Freud compared himself to Copernicus and Darwin, his history as a physician is problematic. Historians...

Publication Date: Nov 2009

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

by Sylvia Nasar

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is...

Publication Date: Sep 2012

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Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings

by Gary Lachman

Now in paperback, this bold new biography fills a gap in our understanding of the pioneering psychologist by focusing on the occult and mystical aspects of Jung's thought and...

Publication Date: Dec 2012

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Love Shrinks

by Sharyn Wolf

For twenty years, Sharyn Wolf, a practicing psychotherapist and "relationship expert," has helped revitalize the marriages of countless couples. But while she was being interviewed on Oprah and i48 hours to talk about her nationally...

Publication Date: May 2012

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Master Plan, The: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

by Heather Pringle

Now in paperback, the groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions For those who thought the zealous Nazi archaeologists in Raiders of the Lost Ark were a screenwriter's...

Publication Date: Feb 2007

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My Soul Said to Me: An Unlikely Journey Behind the Walls of Justice

by Robert E. Roberts

In the mid 1980s, Bob Roberts was a successful dentist, stunt flyer and racecar driver. While undergoing marital counseling he was fascinated by the psychological process and pursued his own doctorate in psychology. Intrigued by the...

Publication Date: Feb 2003

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Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa

by Paul R. Linde

'This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained.'...

Publication Date: Sep 2002

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Out of Place: A Memoir

by Edward W. Said

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and...

Publication Date: Sep 2000

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Prozac Diary

by Lauren Slater

A dazzling and powerful account of a life profoundly altered by Prozac-- 'surely among the best on the long-term effects of the drug' (The New York Times)In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge,...

Publication Date: Sep 1999

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Recollections: An Autobiography

by Viktor E. Frankl

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a...

Publication Date: Sep 2000

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Serving the Insane

by Bruce Donald Gilham

From 1969 to 1974, Bruce Donald Gilham experienced a mental institution from inside its locked doors... as a psychiatric nurse. Written from the perspective of forty years later, this collection of stories lays bare the dramatic characters, colorful...

Publication Date: Jun 2011

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Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism

by Donna Williams

In the acclaimed sequel to Nobody Nowhere--in which Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism--Williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her 'world under glass' and live normally. NPR...

Publication Date: Apr 1995

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The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled

by Robert Francis Murphy

Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the...

Publication Date: Jan 1990

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The Man Who Shocked The World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram

by Thomas Blass

This book presents an in-depth portrait of the 20th century scientist who garnered international attention for his Obedience Experiments and for originating the theory of six degrees of separation. Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative...

Publication Date: Mar 2009

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The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has long been considered an expert on the terminally ill, and she is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States. Now retired after a series of strokes, and, at...

Publication Date: Jun 1998

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Timothy Leary: A Biography

by Robert Greenfield

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, 'Tune in, turn on, drop out' became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by...

Publication Date: Jul 2007

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What's My Secret?

by Lillian Brown Vogel

What's My Secret? / Memories and Reflections on a Long Life By Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph. D. "What's my secret?" This question has been thrown at me innumerable times by people of all ages. Do I have an explanation for my long life of...

Publication Date: Jul 2009

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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness