Books and Articles
Recommended reading.
Books I recommend to patients and families living with bipolar disorder, psychosis, and related conditions. These readings are educational and do not replace individual medical advice.
Books About Bipolar Disorder
Books About Thought Disorders and Psychosis, For Patients and Families
- Surviving Schizophrenia, E. Fuller Torrey
- The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia, Kim T. Mueser & Susan Gingerich
- Meaningful Recovery from Schizophrenia and Serious Mental Illness with Clozapine, Robert S. Laitman
- I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment, Xavier F. Amador
Self-Help Reading
- Think You're Crazy? Think Again: A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis, Morrison, Renton, French & Bentall
- Overcoming Distressing Voices, Mark Hayward
- Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts (2nd ed.), Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman & Philippa Garety
- Becoming Fluent: A LEAP Partnering Book, Xavier F. Amador
- Back to Life, Back to Normality: Cognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis, Douglas Turkington
- Back to Life, Back to Normality: CBTp-Informed Recovery for Families, Douglas Turkington & Helen Spencer
Lived Experience
- Relating to Voices: A Self-Help Book for People Who Hear Voices, Charlie Heriot-Maitland & Eleanor Longden
- The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang
- The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Milton Rokeach
- A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
- The Great Pretender, Susannah Cahalan
- The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks
- Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery, M. Romme