📚 Mental Illness

The categories and their careers: asylum records, the diagnostic manuals, and the anti-psychiatry reply.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mental illness in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Mind That Found Itself	Clifford Whittingham Beers	1908	133
	Abnormal psychology	David H. Barlow	1995	45
	Psychopathology	James E. Maddux	2004	34
	The Human Mind	Karl A. Menninger	1930	33
	Asylums	Erving Goffman	1961	26
	The Myth of Mental Illness	Thomas Stephen Szasz	1961	23
	Adult psychopathology and diagnosis	Michel Hersen	2007	15
	Change your brain, change your life	Daniel G. Amen	1998	13
	Folie et Déraison	Michel Foucault	1965	11
	Peace from nervous suffering	Claire Weekes	1972	11
	Woyzeck	Howard Colyer	2013	11
	Bildnerei der Geisteskranken	Hans Prinzhorn	1922	10
	The mask of sanity	Hervey M. Cleckley	1941	10
	Abnormal psychology and modern life	James C. Coleman	1950	10
	Abnormal Psychology	McGraw-Hill	1996	10
	Abnormal Psychology	Susan Nolen-Hoeksema	1997	9
	Sociology of mental disorder	William C. Cockerham	1981	8
	Abnormal psychology	Vincent Mark Durand	1997	8
	Crazy	Pete Earley	2006	8
	Abnormal Psychology	William J. Ray	2014	8
	Mad in America	Robert Whitaker	2001	7
	Treating Those with Mental Disorders	Victoria E. Kress	2014	7
	Abnormal Psychology	Susan Krauss Whitbourne	2009	6
	Maladie mentale et psychologie	Michel Foucault	1966	5
	Madness and modernism	Louis A. Sass	1992	4
	No one cares about crazy people	Ron Powers	2017	4
	Psychiatric Hegemony	Bruce M. Z. Cohen	2016	3
	Fish's Clinical psychopathology	Frank Fish	1985	2
	Mental disorders	Courtney Farrell	2010	2
	Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders	American Psychiatric Association	2013	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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