This page is for anyone interested in a deep dive into mental health through books.

Here are a few I have enjoyed reading, taken something from, and would strongly recommend.

They broadly resonate with my psychotherapeutic experience of people and human nature.

Most internet search engines should help direct you to booksellers. Affordable second-hand books are often available from various vendors on eBay. 
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• The Age of Diagnosis - Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? (2025) by Suzanne O'Sullivan

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• The Courage To Be Disliked (2018) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Toga
   

• The Choice (2017) by Edith Eger
   

• The Power Threat Meaning Framework - An alternative to psychiatric diagnoses (2020) by Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone
   

• This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health - A Journey Into The Heartland Of Psychiatry (2019) - Also published as 'Heartland,' by Nathan Filer
   

• Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (1989) by Irvin D. Yalom

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• Madness Explained - Psychosis and Human Nature (2004) by Richard P. Bentall
   

• Man's Search For Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
   

• The Myth of Normal - Illness, Health And Healing In A Toxic Culture (2021) by Gabor Maté

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• The Art of Uncertainty - How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (2024) by David Spiegelhalter
   

• The School of Life - An Emotional Education (2019) by Alain De Botton
   

• Transforming Trauma - Discovering wholeness and healing after trauma (2019) by Dr James Gordon