Professional Writing
–by E. Fuller Torrey MD
+American Psychosis
+ Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual (7th ed),
+ Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers
+ American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
+ Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
+ Out of the Shadows: Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis
(more or his older writings listed at end)
–by Other Professionals
Insane Consequences, by DJ Jaffe & E. Fuller Torrey MD,
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, by Kay Redfield Jameson
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, by Kay Redfield Jameson (also personal story)
Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, by Alisa Roth
I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment, by Dr. Xavier Amador
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, by Esme Weijun Wang
Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill, by Rael Jean Isaac & Virginia Armat
Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, by Thomas Insel, MD
You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health, by Ken Duckworth, MD
Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry, by Lynne Nanos
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk
Personal Stories
He Came In With It, by Miriam Feldman
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker
Sooner Than Tomorrow: A Mother’s Diary About Mental Illness, Family, and Everyday Life, by Dede Ranahan
Tomorrow Was Yesterday: Explosive First-Person Indictments of the US Mental Health System— Mothers Across the Nation Tell It Like It Is, by
Dede Ranahan
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness, by Jessie Close
A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar
I Am Brian Wilson, by Brian Wilson
Barefoot to Avalon, by David Payne
The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness, by Lisa Long
Behind the Wall: The True Story of Mental Illness as Told by Parents, by Mary and Elie Widdifield
After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity, by Susan Inman
How We Got Barb Back: The Story of My Sister’s Reawakening After 30 Years of Schizophrenia, by Margaret Hawkins
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan
Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, by Pete Earley (a journalist)
Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir, by Laura M. Flynn
A Mother’s Wakening: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy, by Sue Klebold
Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue, by Jane Pauley
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Scheff
A Schizophrenic Will: A Story of Madness, A Story of Hope, by William Jiang
Other Social Issues
White Fragility, by Robin Diangelo
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
*More writings by E. Fuller Torrey, MD:
+ Schizophrenia and Civilization
+ Parasites, Pussycats and Psychosis: The Unknown Dangers of Human Toxoplasmosis
+ Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Abuse of Jails as Mental Hospitals (1992 Study) co-ed.with J.Ezekiel, J.Stieber
+ Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture
+ Schizophrenia and Manic-Depressive Disorder (1995) with A. Bowler, E.Taylor, I.Gottesman
+The Biological Roots Of Mental Illness As Revealed By The Landmark Study Of Identical Twins (1995), with Bowler, Taylor, Gottesman
+Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill (1988)
+ The Death of Psychiatry (1975)