The Greatest Books of All Time on Psychiatry

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
1398 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty 1971 American English
2198 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 1998 Brazilian Portuguese
3208 Briefing For A Descent Into Hell Doris May Lessing 1971 British English
5763 The Deadly Percheron John Franklin Bardin 1946 American English
6089 The End Of The World News Anthony Burgess 1982 British English
6250 Great Apes Will Self 1997 British English
6407 The Seven Per Cent Solution Nicholas Meyer 1974 American English
7034 Madness And Civilization Michel Foucault 1961 French French
7216 Man Against Himself Karl A. Menninger 1938 American English
7892 Shutter Island Dennis Lehane 2003 American English
8529 Sanctum Denise Mina 2002 Scottish English
9193 Irritable Hearts Mac McClelland 2015 Unknown English
9825 The Frozen Dead Bernard Minier 2011 French French
9962 Asylum Patrick McGrath 1996 British English
11141 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? Susan Sheehan 1982 American English
11600 Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
11846 Le Pavillon Des Enfants Fous Valérie Valère 1978 French French
12259 The Loony Bin Trip Kate Millett 1990 American English
12310 When I Was Five I Killed Myself Howard Buten 1981 American English
12623 Unshrunk Laura Delano 2025 American English
14074 Pilgrim Timothy Findley 1999 Canadian English
14197 What The Butler Saw Joe Orton 1969 British English
14817 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14930 Equus Peter Shaffer 1973 British English
15616 The Primal Scream Arthur Janov 1970 American English
15916 The Myth Of Mental Illness Thomas Szasz 1961 American English
17164 The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson 2011 British English
17164 The Jagged Orbit John Brunner 1969 British English
16923 The Alienist Machado de Assis 1882 Brazilian Portuguese
17164 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 1993 American English
17164 Schizoanalytic Cartographies Félix Guattari 1989 French French