Memoirs & Journals

This is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...

'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I w...

Friedrich Nietzsche's work rocked the foundation of Western thinking and continues to permeate our culture, high and low - yet he is one of history...

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...

The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Mat...

The Basics: Melanie Klein provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those o...

Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started yea...

Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, ...

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist an...

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher told the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked ...