Books - want to read 📗

Critical Psychiatry list
Bookwyrm
https://bookwyrm.social/list/4619/s/critical-psychiatry?page=1

Archive lists
Want to read
https://archive.org/details/@littlerollycat/lists/30/want-to-read-%F0%9F%93%97
Madness and History
https://archive.org/details/@littlerollycat/lists/26/madness-%F0%9F%A7%A1-history-

Will Hall
Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness reveals the human side of mental illness. In this remarkable collection of interviews and essays, therapist, Madness Radio host, and schizophrenia survivor Will Hall asks, “What does it mean to be called crazy in a crazy world?” http://outsidementalhealth.com/
Preface - pdf
https://willhall.net/files/ExcerptPrefaceOutsideMentalHealthVoicesAndVisionsOfMadnessEBook.pdf
Kindle
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0996514309?ref_=cb_interstitial_us_ca_desktop_unrec_location_unk_dp_dp

Dr. Lucy Johnstone: The Power Threat Meaning Framework
Mad in America
https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/03/dr-lucy-johnstone-power-threat-meaning-framework/
Mad in America - pdf
https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Power-Threat-Meaning-Framework.pdf

A Straight Talking Introduction To Psychiatric Diagnosis
https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-psychiatric-diagnosis-second-edition/

Neurodiversity—What Exactly Does It Mean?
By John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone
Mad in UK
https://www.madintheuk.com/2024/12/part-1-neurodiversity-what-exactly-does-it-mean/

FICTION
Asylum Piece and Other Stories  by Anna Kavan
Borrow on Archive 🏛️
https://archive.org/details/asylumpieceother0000anna/mode/2up
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kavan
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939 as both her pen name and her legal identity. She is most well-known for her 1967 novel, Ice, published just a year before her death.
Genre-bending and experimental writing
Kavan's work is difficult to situate in fixed literary categories; the scope of her work shows her experimenting with realism, surrealism and absurdism. Her work often abandons linear plot and narrative structure and portrays nameless landscapes and nameless characters. Her disruptive narratives are close to the technique of stream of consciousness associated with modernist novelists. Her best-known novel Ice has been described as slipstream, a non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries, where Borges' Fictions, Calvino's Invisible Cities or Ballard's Crash are cited as 'canon of slipstream writing'.
Politics of madness
In her fiction and journalism Kavan promoted a radical politics of madness, giving voice to the disenfranchised and marginalized psychiatric patient and presaging the anti-psychiatry movement.

The bird of night - by Hill, Susan
Publication date 1973
Borrow on Archive 🏛️
https://archive.org/details/birdofnight00hill
Review
Susan Hill’s 1972 novel examines the relationship between Bipolar Affective Disorder and creativity; the illness that both creates genius and destroys it.  The text, which contains homoerotic overtones, is narrated by Harvey from first person perspective, giving an insight into the pressure on his abilities to care for and keep safe Francis, who is seen as the greatest poet of his era but is extremely unwell with a madness that is directly linked to his creativity.  Francis’ illness is both the driving force for his brilliance and the key element to his downfall.  The novel is a brilliant exploration of madness, almost completely removed from the medical system, in which madness is seen concomitantly pathological and a necessary part of the creative process.
http://madnessandliterature.org/literature.php?id=56&resultpage=1
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1622611.The_Bird_of_Night

NONFICTION
The Inflamed Mind  A Radical New Approach to Depression
by Edward Bullmore
In this game-changing book, University of Cambridge professor of psychiatry Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain. He explains how and why we now know that mental disorders can have their root cause in the immune system, and outlines a future revolution in which treatments could be specifically targeted to break the vicious cycles of stress, inflammation, and depression.
https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/the-inflamed-mind-5

Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche
by Watters, Ethan
American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
https://shepherd.com/book/crazy-like-us

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An angel at my table : the complete autobiography
by Frame, Janet
Borrow on Archive
https://archive.org/details/angelatmytableco0000fram

LITERATURE
The old curiosity shop  by Dickens, Charles
Archive
https://archive.org/details/oldcuriosityshop00dick_9/mode/2up
Illustrations
https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/maclise/18.html

ARTICLES
DIVINE MADNESS  A BRIEF HISTORY OF LITERATURE’S BLESSED LUNATICS
By David Comfort
The Montréal Review, November 2022
https://www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/A-Brief-History-of-Literature-s-Blessed-Lunatics.php