Fiction
What's it about?
Primate studies
Why do I want to read it?
It links to Comparative Psychology
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
A novel about a psychiatrist and his patients written by Tony Blair’s ‘spin doctor’
Why do I want to read it?
The first novel by someone who has been open about his own experiences of mental illness
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
Sleep abnormalities and obsessions
Why do I want to read it?
Relates to Environmental Psychology topic 2
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
Guilt
Why do I want to read it?
It explores the psychological effects of murder on the murderer
Where can I find it?
Fiction 891.7 DOS
What's it about?
The development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the late 19th century
Why do I want to read it?
It links with the Core Study by Freud
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about? -
Loss, grief and mental illness
Why do I want to read it?
Relevant to Issues in Mental Health
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
Growing up in an atypical family
Why do I want to read it?
It links to Comparative Psychology
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
Abduction
Why do I want to read it?
It explores the psychology of being held captive
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
The title story tells the story of a man with schizophrenia from his perspective
Why do I want to read it?
Relevant to Issues in Mental Health (characteristics of a psychotic disorder)
Where can I find it?
Fiction 891.7 GOG
What's it about?
A detective story from the point of view of a boy on the autistic spectrum
Why do I want to read it?
Builds on the topic matter of the Core Study by Baron-Cohen
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
A fictionalised account of the case of Damilola Taylor
Why do I want to read it?
It links to ethnocentrism (and cultural differences)
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
About life inside a mental hospital in the USA in the late 1950s/ early 1960s
Why do I want to read it?
It links to Issues in Mental Health (the key research by Rosenhan)
Where can I find it?
Fiction 813 KES
What's it about?
A novel with consciousness as its theme
Why do I want to read it?
It explores some of the philosophical questions raised by cognitive psychology
Where can I find it?
Fiction 823 LOD
What's it about?
The psychology of high-school killings
Why do I want to read it?
It brings alive the nature-nurture debate, applying it to the most serious of crimes
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
A family’s response to one of its members experiencing depression and killing himself
Why do I want to read it?
Relevant to Issues in Mental Health (characteristics of an affective disorder)
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author
What's it about?
Thriller inspired by anterograde amnesia
Why do I want to read it?
It links to Cognitive Psychology
Where can I find it?
Fiction A-Z by author