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• 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)
• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (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)

• "They Call Them Camisoles" (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, c1940), by Wilma Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Right Spirit (Buffalo: Courier Co., 1885), by Lizzie D. Cottier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Days in a Mad-House (with miscellaneous sketches "Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave"; New York: N. L. Munro, n.d.), by Nellie Bly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• The Mental Ward: A Personnel Guidebook (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1962), by Morgan Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, By A Sane Patient (London: Chatto and Windus, 1879), by Herman Charles Merivale
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States (Hoosick Falls, NY: Printed for the author, 1874), by Moses Swan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Day They Scrambled My Brains at the Funny Factory (1977), by Max Rabinowitz (HTML at maxraven.com)
• Sane or Insane? or, How I Regained Liberty (c1904), by Margaret Starr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reluctantly Told (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Jane Hillyer, contrib. by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)

• Mrs. Gailey (c1951), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Näkymätön Mies (The Invisible Man in Finnish; 1922), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Aino Tuomikoski (Gutenberg text)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• The Day They Scrambled My Brains at the Funny Factory (1977), by Max Rabinowitz (HTML at maxraven.com)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States (Hoosick Falls, NY: Printed for the author, 1874), by Moses Swan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sane or Insane? or, How I Regained Liberty (c1904), by Margaret Starr (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)

• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

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