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ICI is providing these resources to help facilitate critical education and discussion about a variety of topics and issues related to all things “mental health”. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily imply endorsement by ICI. Some of these resources are closely aligned with our mission, vision, and values. Others may use terms or ideas, promote values or beliefs, or engage in activities that are not fully in sync with what we believe in, strive towards, or envision as an organization; however, we’ve included them here because, in our estimation, they still contribute constructively to some aspects of our overall mission.

Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

"Sixty-one authors – (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives from all five continents – report about their alternative work, their objectives and successes, and their individual and collective experiences."

 

Resource link

http://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/books/without.htm

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Non-Drug Options & Approaches

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Book
Anatomy of an Epidemic

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

"In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?"

Resource link

https://www.madinamerica.com/anatomy-of-an-epidemic/

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Science & Research

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Book
Deadly Medicines

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

Peter Gøtzsche's book seeks to "alert people to two terrible facts: Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. The behaviour of Big Pharma fulfils the criteria for organised crime in US law."

Resource link

http://www.deadlymedicines.dk/books/

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Science & Research

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Book
Decolonizing Global Mental Health

Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The psychiatrization of the majority world

China Mills' book "seeks to de-familiarize current ‘Western’ conceptions of psychology and psychiatry using postcolonial theory. It leads us to wonder whether we should call for equality in global access to psychiatry, whether everyone should have the right to a psychotropic citizenship and whether mental health can, or should, be global."

Resource link

https://www.routledge.com/Decolonizing-Global-Mental-Health-The-psychiatrizatio…

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
De-Medicalizing Misery

De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology, and the Human Condition

A collection edited by Mark Rapley, Joanna Moncrieff, and Jacqui Dillon: "Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present.

Resource link

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230242715

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

"This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life. Must-read book for all concerned with mental health issues."

Resource link

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7156189-living-with-voices

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Personal Stories & Experiences

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Book
Mad Matters

Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies

Edited by Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume. "With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, [this book] presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness.""

Resource link

https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/mad-matters

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Mad Science

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Written by Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, and David Cohen, this book "provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs."

Resource link

https://www.routledge.com/Mad-Science-Psychiatric-Coercion-Diagnosis-and-Drugs/…

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Models of Madness

Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia, 2nd edition

"This second edition of Models of Madness challenges those who hold to simplistic, pessimistic and often damaging theories and treatments of madness.

Resource link

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1045214.Models_of_Madness

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Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

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Book
Psychiatry Under the Influence

Psychiatry Under The Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Written by Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove, "Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption."

Resource link

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137506948

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

"Blending first-person accounts, riveting case studies, cutting-edge research and passionate argument, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction...takes a panoramic yet highly intimate look at this widespread and perplexing human ailment."

Resource link

https://drgabormate.com/book/in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs

Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent

Written by Grace Jackson, "Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent is a critical appraisal of the medications which an estimated 20% of Americans consume on a regular (and sometimes involuntary) basis."

Resource link

https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Psychiatric-Drugs-Informed-Consent/dp/1420867…

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Searching For a Rose Garden book cover

Searching For a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies

"Referencing Joanne Greenberg’s book I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, this collection demonstrates the challenge, determination and successes of the authors in working towards a paradigm shift in the understanding of madness and distress."

Resource link

https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/searching-for-a-rose-garden-1

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Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

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Book
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis

"Psychiatric diagnosis has become one of the most contested practices in mental health services today. Lucy Johnstone asks 'Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis?' This book will help you to decide... If the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that psychiatric diagnoses are not supported by evidence, then no one should be forced to accept them."

Resource link

http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/sti-diagnosis#.WYeBMlGQwkI

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
Tales From the Madhouse

Tales From the Madhouse: An Insider Critique of Psychiatric Services

"The author's 33 years of experience working as a mental health professional - psychiatric nurse, clinical psychologist and manager - has enabled the creation of a distinctive insider account of the shameful failings of the Western psychiatric system.

Resource link

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Madhouse-Insider-Critique-Psychiatricservices/dp/1…

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Personal Stories & Experiences
Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
The Therapy Industry by Paul Moloney

The Therapy Industry

The Therapy Industry fundamentally challenges our conceptions of happiness and wellbeing. Moloney argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science, that their benefits are highly exaggerated and they prosper because they serve the interests of power.

Resource link

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745329864/the-therapy-industry/

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Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

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Book
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

"Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'?"

 

Resource link

https://drgabormate.com/book/when-the-body-says-no/

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