PSYCHOLOGY
AND BOOKS
Below please find a list of books that include
some aspect of psychology. If you have a book you would like to add, please mail the title to me at
merrill@smccd.net. Please check back
occasionally, as new titles will be added throughout the semester. All books listed
below can be found at your local city/county library, Barnes and Noble
Bookseller or at www.amazon.com.
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
Psychological Disorders
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Instinct theory, moral
development
Surviving Schizophrenia:
A Manual for Families, Consumers and Providers, E. Fuller Torrey
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Drug addiction
Passing for
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome
Wasted: A Memoir of
Anorexia and Bulimia, Marya Hornbacher
(student recommendation)
The Boy Who Couldn’t
Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Judith L. Rapoport
The
Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time,
Mark Haddon (student recommendation)
Autism
Just
Checking, Emily Colas
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder
The
Last Time I Wore a Dress, Daphne
Scholinski
First
person account of life in a psych ward
Sickened:
A Memoir of a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Julie Gregory
Trans-Sister
Radio, Chris Bohjalian
Gender Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
A
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness, Patty Duke
Lying
Awake, Mark
Salzman
Religious
experiences as a possible consequence of epilepsy
The
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
Case
histories of individuals with neurological disorders
She’s
Come Undone,
Wally Lamb
Includes issues discussed in developmental
psych
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Discusses intuition, snap judgments and other social psychological
concepts
Love’s
Executioner, I.
Yalom
Case
studies of individuals in therapy.