Grappling with Mental Illness explores psychiatry’s attempt to monopolize the field of mental illness from the end of World War II to the present day, as well as its interactions with four major social sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, each of which presented its own challenges to psychiatry’s presumed pre-eminence.

A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, while focusing on what makes humans so different from each other although we are also universally so much alike.

Unique, engaging, and packed with useful clinical vignettes based on twenty-five years of clinical practice, Why People Smoke will make you a better clinician or caregiver and will change the way you think about smoking forever. You can develop a deeper understanding of our own role in curbing this debilitating public health epidemic.

Asylum Ways of Seeing uncovers a patient culture within twentieth-century American psychiatric hospitals that did not just imbibe ideas from the outside world, but generated ones of their own. In illuminating seemingly resigned patients in these settings, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.