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• Psychopathology in literature

• Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity (extract from the American Journal of Insanity, 1847), by Isaac Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)
• Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, by Royal Society of Medicine, ed. by Arthur Crisp (HTML at archive.org)
• A Secret Worth Knowing: A Treatise on the Most Important Subject in the World, Simply to Say, Insanity (1846), by G. Grimes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reluctantly Told (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Jane Hillyer, contrib. by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychology of Mental Disorders (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Abraham Myerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Insanity (Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd for Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1806), by Philippe Pinel, trans. by D. D. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1936), by William S. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case Of Insanity and a No Less Remarkable Difference In Medical Opinion: Developing the Nature of Assailment, and the Manner of Working Events: With a Description of the Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking, and Lengthening the Brain (London: G. Hayden, 1810), by John Haslam (page images at wellcomelibrary.org)

• Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual (second edition; London: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018), by Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Studies in Word-Association: Experiments in the Diagnosis of Psychopathological Conditions Carried Out at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1919), by C. G. Jung, trans. by M. D. Eder (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Bill of Divorcement: A Play (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Clemence Dane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on the Disease, and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1798), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise of Dreams and Visions: Wherein the Causes, Natures, and Uses, of Nocturnal Representations, and the Communications Both of Good and Evil Angels, as Also Departed Souls, to Mankind, Are Theosophically Unfolded; That is, According to the Word of God, and the Harmony of Created Beings (with an appendix on madness; ca. 1689), by Thomas Tryon
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Little Demon (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Fyodor Sologub, trans. by John Cournos and Richard Aldington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Sooner or Later: The Story of an Ingenious Ingénue (London: Chapman and Hall, 1904), by Violet Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental Disorders and Genetics: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Society (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with OCR errors at Princeton)
• Pathologie Mentale des Rois de France, Louis XI et Ses Ascendants: Une Vie Humaine Étudiée à Travers Six Siècles d'Hérédité, 852-1483 (in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1903), by Auguste Brachet, ed. by Anna Korff Brachet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• General and Special Therapeutics of Mental Diseases and Psychical Disorders, Compiled and Edited According to Homoeopathic Principles (Manchester, UK: H. Turner; et al., 1857), by G. H. G. Jahr, trans. by John M. Galloway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Médico-Psychologiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Health and Human Behavior (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Mental Science (partial serial archives)
• The Asylum Journal of Mental Science (full serial archives)
• L'Evolution Psychiatrique (partial serial archives)

• The Maniac: A Realistic Study of Madness From the Maniac's Point of View (London: Rebman, 1909), by E. Thelmar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Effects of Emancipation upon the Mental and Physical Health of the Negro of the South (reprinted from the North Carolina Medical Journal, 1896), by J. F. Miller (HTML with commentary at UNC)

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at surgeongeneral.gov)

• A Letter to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect (London: R. Hunter, 1823), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal Science Monograph #2; 1916), by Bernard Glueck (Gutenberg text)

• Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)

• Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, by Royal Society of Medicine, ed. by Arthur Crisp (HTML at archive.org)

• Sane or Insane? or, How I Regained Liberty (c1904), by Margaret Starr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement: Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity, and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued Towards Many Unfortunate Sufferers Under That Calamity (London: E. Wilson, 1838), by John Perceval (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement: Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity, and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued Towards Many Unfortunate Sufferers Under That Calamity (second, enlarged, edition; London: E. Wilson, 1840), by John Perceval (multiple formats at Google)
• The Travels and Experience of Miss Phebe B. Davis of Barnard, Windsor County, Vt. (Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1860), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mental Ward: A Personnel Guidebook (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1962), by Morgan Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Persecution (2 volumes with different subtitles and publishers; 1873), by E. P. W. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane; With Some Remarks on Insanity and its Treatment (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1880), by Thomas Story Kirkbride (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)

• Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1973), by Albert E. Scheflen (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Psychotherapy and Personality Change: Co-Ordinated Research Studies in the Client-Centered Approach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954), ed. by Carl R. Rogers and Rosalind F. Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)

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