Mental Health Titles

Fighting for Recovery: An Activists'
History of Mental Health Reform

by Phyllis Vine

This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not. In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible.

Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge
by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth. To identify solutions, psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews a roster of experts across the country who are dedicating their lives to working with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds. Mind Over Monsters is a must-read for teachers, parents, administrators, and young people themselves.

Borderline: The Biography of a
Personality Disorder

by Alexander Kriss

Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with Borderline Personality Disorder are deemed especially untreatable. When Alex Kriss first began working as a therapist in the field, his supervisors warned him that borderline patients were manipulative, difficult, and had a tendency to drop out of treatment. Yet, years later, when Kriss was establishing his private practice and a patient known as Ana came to his office, he felt compelled to try to help her. Borderline is the story of his work with Ana—how his successes with her led him to open his doors to other BPD patients and advocate for them. Kriss guides us through the history of the disorder, the development of the modern diagnosis, and attitudes toward treatment today.

Stubborn Grace: Faith, Mental Illness, and Demanding a Blessing, A Memoir

by Kate Landis

Kate Landis grew up in the American Baptist Church until she left in her late teens after surviving major depression and a handful of suicide attempts. She became an activist, feminist, punk, and self-described rabble rouser. And through activism she found a spiritual community with justice at its core and a faith that could hold it all—her mental illness, her fire, her spunk, and all of her questions—a loving, stubborn grace. With unflinching honesty and humor in the vein of Cheryl Strayed and David Sedaris but a raw tenderness all her own, Landis chronicles the hardest parts of her young adulthood as well as her poignant journey to community.

Feeling all the Feelings Workbook
by Brad Petersen and
illustrated by Betsy Petersen

Feeling happy, sad, brave, or frustrated? Whatever you're feeling, this book is here to help! Feel all your feelings and better understand them with activities and ideas to help you grow. The more you know about feelings, the more feelings you can feel—and the more you can help yourself and others on your journey through life. Organized by types of feelings, this book includes activities, illustrations, journal ideas, and hands-on projects. Ages 6–9.