Psychiatry Book Club

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Other Stories

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Compiles seven stories that examine the relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.

I Know This Much Is True

By Wally Lamb

Tells the story of a pair of twins, one plagued by schizophrenia and the other by a promise he made to his dying mother to look after his brother.

Psychiatry Book Club

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Other Stories

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An Unquiet Mind

I Know This Much Is True