14 Best Psychiatry Books
Goal: Find the best Psychiatry books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best psychiatry books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
14 Best Psychiatry Books
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, Esther Perel, Emma Watson, Naval Ravikant, David Blaine, Terry Crews, Jimmy Fallon, Tony Robbins, Simon Sinek, Michael Gervais, Daniel Pink, Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz, Ryan Holiday, Chelsea Handler, Maria Popova, Fedor Holz, Aniela Gregorek, Turia Pitt, Michael Hyatt, Patrick Bet-David, Robin Black, Steve Kerr, Alastair Humphreys, Jim Kwik, Tom Bilyeu, Phil Jackson, Mark Manson, Shane Parrish, PewDiePie, Chip Conley, Dave Elitch, Lex Fridman
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Also recommended by:
Amelia Boone, Aubrey Marcus, Hamilton Morris, Kara Swisher, Naval Ravikant, Paul Stamets, Peter Attia, Tim Ferriss, Vinod Khosla, Yuval Noah Harari, Stewart Butterfield, Michael Mauboussin
An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
by Robert Whitaker
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
Darkness Visible
A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks
It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry
by Robert Boland
Personality Disorders in Modern Life
by Theodore Millon
Saving Normal
An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
by Allen Frances
The Center Cannot Hold
My Journey Through Madness
by Elyn R. Saks
The Divided Self
An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
Unhinged
The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
by Daniel Carlat M.D.
Sources
- 1
Books to Open the Mind of a Psychiatrist
opmed.doximity.com
- 2
100 Best Psychiatry Books of All Time (Updated for 2021)
shortform.com
- 3
Top 10 books about psychiatry | Fiction | The Guardian
theguardian.com
- 4
10 Books Psychiatric Clinicians Will Love - Dr. DeCapua
melissadecapua.com
- 5
Top 10 Psychiatry Board Review Books - BoardVitals Blog
boardvitals.com
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