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Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medical College

Additional Resources to Consult at Diethelm Library

Archives:

Alfred Freedman MD Papers
Eric Carlson MD Papers
Fanny Ward Papers
Norman Dain PhD Papers

Objects collection: 

pins and buttons

Journal collection: 

Opal, Madness Network News, State and mind, RT: a journal of radical therapy, Issues in Radical Therapy, New Studies on the Left, The radical Therapist, Rough times

Books:

Ten days in a mad-house written by Brad Ricca ; illustrated by Courtney Sieh ; adapted from the work of Nellie Bly 
2022 R489T

Disalienation : politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar France by Camille Robcis
2021 R637d

The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness by Susannah Cahalan 
2019 C132G

Thomas Szasz : an appraisal of his legacy edited by C.V. Haldipur, James L. Knoll IV, and Eric v.d. Luft
2019 H158t

​​Break on through : radical psychiatry and the American counterculture by Lucas Richert
2019 R529b

Psychiatry and its discontents by Andrew Scull
2019 S437p

The British anti-psychiatrists : from institutional psychiatry to the counter-culture, 1960-1971 by Oisín Wall
2018 W187b

No one cares about crazy people : the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America by Ron Powers
2017 P888n

Thomas S. Szasz : the man and his ideas edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Henry Zvi Lothane, and Richard E. Vatz
2017 T462

Les antipsychiatries : une histoire by Jacques Hochmann
2015 H685a

A critical history of schizophrenia by Kieran McNally
2015 M169c

Psychiatry disrupted : theorizing resistance and crafting the (r)evolution edited by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, and Shaindl Diamond 
2014 B972P

Living with voices : 50 stories of recovery
2009 R766l

Critical psychiatry : the limits of madness edited by D. B. Double
2006 C934

Raising our voices : an account of the hearing voices movement by Adam James
2001 J27r

Commonsense rebellion : debunking psychiatry, confronting society : an A to Z guide to rehumanizing our lives by Bruce E. Levine
2001 L665c

The crucible of experience : R.D. Laing and the crisis of psychotherapy by Daniel Burston
2000 B972c

Call me crazy : stories from the mad movement by Irit Shimrat 
1997 S556C

Voices of madness : four pamphlets, 1683 - 1796 edited by Allan Ingram ; foreword by Roy Porter 
1997 V889

The wing of madness : the life and work of R. D. Laing by Daniel Burston
1996 B972w

Beyond bedlam : contemporary women psychiatric survivors speak out edited by Jeanine Grobe
1995 B573

Psychiatrists -- the men behind Hitler : the architects of horror by Thomas Röder, Volker Kubillius, Anthony Burwell
1995 R688p

Psychiatry : the ultimate betrayal by Bruce Wiseman
1995 W814p

Toxic psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin
1994 B833t

Cruel compassion : psychiatric control of society's unwanted by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1994 S996c

Madness, heresy, and the rumor of angels : the revolt against the mental health system by Seth Farber
1993 F219m

Madness in the streets : how psychiatry and the law abandoned the mentally ill by Rael Jean Isaac, Virginia C. Armat
1990 I73m

Final analysis : the making and unmaking of a psychoanalyst by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
1990 M419f

The loony-bin trip by Kate Millett
1990 M653l

Insanity : the idea and its consequences by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1987 S996i

The therapeutic state : psychiatry in the mirror of current events by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1984 S996t

The politics of schizophrenia : psychiatric oppression in the United States by David Hill
1983 H645p

Psycho politics : Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz, and the future of mass psychiatry by Peter Sedgwick
1982 S448p

La gestion des risques : de l'anti-psychiatrie à l'après-psychanalyse by Robert Castel
1981 C348g

Sex by prescription by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1980 S996s

The anti-psychiatry bibliography and resource guide by K. Portland Frank
1979 F828a

The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1978 S996m

R.D. Laing : the philosophy and politics of psychotherapy by Andrew Collier
1977 C699r

Psychiatric slavery by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1977 S996p

Karl Kraus and the soul-doctors : a pioneer critic and his criticism of psychiatry and psychoanalysis by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1976 S996k

Schizophrenia : the sacred symbol of psychiatry by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1976 S996s

Social amnesia : a critique of conformist psychology from Adler to Laing by Russell Jacoby
1975 J12s

Antipsychiatrie : ou, Les voies du sacré by Christian Delacampagne
1974 D332a

Madness network news reader edited by Sherry Hirsch, Joe Kennedy Adams, Leonard Roy Frank, Wade Hudson, Richard Keene, Gail Krawitz-Keene, David Richman and Robert Roth
1974 M669 OS

The age of madness : the history of involuntary mental hospitalization, presented in selected texts by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1974 S996a

Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1974 S996c

Radical psychology edited by Phil Brown
1973 B879r

The second sin by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1973 S996s

Prisoners of psychiatry : mental patients, psychiatrists, and the law by Bruce J. Ennis
1972 E59p

Going crazy : the radical therapy of R. D. Laing and others by Hendrik Marinus Ruitenbeek
1972 R934g

R.D. Laing & anti-psychiatry by Robert Boyers
1971 B791r

The radical therapist : the radical therapist collective
1971 R129

The death of the family by David Cooper
1970 C776d

Ideology and insanity : essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1970 S996i

The manufacture of madness : a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement  by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1970 S996m

The politics of experience by R. D. Laing
1968 L187p

Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry by David Cooper 
1967 C776P

Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the age of reason by Michel Foucault
1965 F762m

Psychiatric justice by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1965 S996p

Law, liberty, and psychiatry : an inquiry into the social uses of mental health practices by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1963 S996L

The myth of mental illness : foundations of a theory of personal conduct by Thomas Stephen Szasz
1961 S996m
1974 S996m

The divided self : a study of sanity and madness by R. D. Laing
1960 L187d

From under the cloud : or, personal reminiscences of insanity by Anna Agnew 
1887 A273F

See also:

Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English (5th edition) 

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