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An Unquiet Mind
An Unquiet Mind offers fascinating insight into the experience of a brilliant analytical mind besieged by the radical mood swings of bipolar disorder.
The Curious Incident
Written through the eyes of a 15-year-old who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome (a form of autism), the book is, at its simplest level, a murder mystery.
Mr Golightly's Holiday
An elderly writer rents a damp cottage in the village of Great Calne in order to rewrite his former bestseller into a soap opera. But whp is he really?
A Child called It
As a child, Pelzer suffered terrible abuse at the hands of his mother. This is an account of what he went through. But Pelzer's will to survive is massively inspiring.
The Noonday Demon
Extensive research has gone into this international bestseller which examines depression in all its spheres.
Drinking - a Love Story
This is a sobering read – literally – for anyone who thinks they couldn’t possibly be an addict because they’re just not that kind of person.
Boy A
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! (Scott) This book is about the ultimate deception: living a life that’s been invented for your own protection.
The Sacred Maths in your Birth Date
Does your birthday mean anything, really? Do those numbers add up to anything other than an attempt to find meaning?
Kluge
“Kluge” is an engineering term that refers to a solution that is clumsy yet effective. In this book, Gary Marcus argues that the human mind is a kluge.
Your voice in my head
Emma Forrest was just 22 when she realised her ‘oddness’ was taking her too far. She had moved from unhappy and eccentric, to self-destructive, even suicidal.
We just can't stop
Much has been written on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) since Rapoport’s book came out in 1989, but this remains the classic.
Darkness Visible
Few attempts to express the nature of depression have succeeded as profoundly as Darkness Visible.
Prince of Tides
It tells the story of a man who travels to New York to support his schizophrenic sister. The sessions with his sister's psychiatrist become the main focus of this story.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
One of the biggest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary was a doctor, who was also an inmate of an asylum for the criminally insane. This is his fascinating story.
A Million Little Pieces
This book is a compelling and emotive read, telling of life in rehab and the characters that frequent such institutions.
Musicophilia
Sacks, a physician, explores the power of music through individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people.
The Story of Forgetting
Alzheimer’s is distressing, particularly so the early-onset forms of the disease. This novel – both poignant and, at times, very funny – is a fantastic introduction to the disease.
Blue Sky July
Nia Wyn’s baby, Joe, suffered a devastating brain injury while only a couple of hours after he was born…
Fly fishing for sharks
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