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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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
A Matter of Death and Life
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic
Power of Attachment
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
The End of Mental Illness
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Man’s Search for Meaning
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathWithout MAlice by Amesbury Clarke1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Day the Music Died by Blair Evans
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120 books — 180 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Tuskegee Experiments by Michael V. UschanTime to Think by Hannah BarnesSickening by John AbramsonBad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
Medical and Psychiatric Scandals
57 books — 5 voters

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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The Courage to Heal by Ellen BassThe Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura   DavisThe Daughter Of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiLight in Bandaged Places by Liz KinchenTrauma And Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
Resources for Survivors
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy by Judith S. BeckMind Over Mood by Dennis GreenbergerProlonged Exposure Therapy for Ptsd by Edna B. FoaThe Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. BourneThe Mindful Way through Depression by J. Mark G. Williams
Best Therapy Books
87 books — 15 voters


Stefan Molyneux
The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future
Stefan Molyneux

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

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