Reading List
The Future of Mental Health MovementTHE FUTURE OF MENTAL HEALTH READING LIST
The following 100+ books constitute a substantial (though by no means complete) body of literature exploring the issues addressed by the Future of Mental Health Movement: the lack of legitimacy of the DSM and its labeling model, the differences between medication for illness and chemicals with effects, the epidemic of labeling children with “mental disorders,” the globalization of the American psychiatric model, the strengths and weaknesses of psychotherapy, alternative ways of helping individuals with emotional and mental distress, etc.
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Bass, Alison. Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

Breggin, Peter. Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime

Breggin, Peter. Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the “New Psychiatry”

Caplan, Paula. They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

Conrad, Peter. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders

Falloon, Ian R.H., Grainne Fadden. Integrated Mental Health Care: A Comprehensive, Community-Based Approach

Gnaulati, Enrico. Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Healy, David. Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression

Horwitz, Allan and Jerome Wakefield. The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder

Kakar, Sudhir. Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry Into India and its Healing Traditions

Kinderman, Peter. A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Kutchins, Herb and Stuart Kirk. Making Us Crazy: DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders

Levine, Bruce. Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy and Community in a World Gone Crazy

Moloney, Paul. The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure and Why It Doesn’t Work

Moodley, Roy and William West. Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counselling and Psychotherapy

Moskowitz, Andrew, Ingo Shafer and Martin Justin Dorahy. Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

Neimeyer, Robert and Jonathan Raskin. Constructions of Disorder: Meaning-Making Frameworks for Psychotherapy

Newnes, Craig and Cailzie Dunn. This is Madness: A Critical Look at Psychiatry and the Future of Mental Health Services

Pilgrim, David, Richard Bentall, et al. Straight Talking Guide to Psychological Treatments for Mental Health Problems

Rao, Anthony and Michelle Seaton. The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys

Rapley, Mark, Joanna Moncrieff and Jacqui Dillon. De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

Read, John and Jacqui Dillon. Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Madness

Rosemond, John and Bose Ravenel. The Diseasing of America’s Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control

Sinaikin, Phillip. Psychiatryland: How To Protect Yourself from Pill-Pushing Psychiatrists and Develop a Personal Plan for Optimal Mental Health

Sutherland, Patsy and Roy Moodley. Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health
