I'd appreciate any additions to this list, as well as more complete
information on some of the citations.  sc@armory.com
 
 
                   MOOD MATTERS READING LIST
          for people with mood swings and despondence
 
 
Bufe, Charles.  _Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?_  Sharp Press,
San Francisco, 1991.  History, description of typical meeting,
secular alternatives.
 
Burns, David.  _Feeling Good_.  Cognitive therapy and the Pollyanna
approach.  Another way to deal with depression.
 
Dowling, Colette.  _You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way:  New
Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction_, Scribner, 1991.  A
strong argument for the biochemical model including a
biological/genetic affective spectrum that includes, as well as, 
bi-polar disorder and major depression, obsessions, compulsions,
phobias, anxieties, and addictions.
 
Foucault, Michel.  _Madness and Civilization_, Random House, 1965. 
Historic development of the concept of mental illness up to
twentieth century confinement and denial.  
 
Garson, Sascha.  _Out Of Our Minds: How To Cope With The Everyday
Problems Of The Mentally Ill_.   Prometheus Books, New York, 1986. 
Good treatment of most of the important issues.  An open minded
NAMI publication.
 
Georgotas, Anastasios.  _Depression and Mania_, Elsevier, New York,
1988.  42 articles provide a good overview.
 
Gold, Mark.  _The Good News About Panic, Anxiety & Phobias. 
Villard_.  Biopsychiatry.
 
Goodwin, Frederick K. and Kay Redfield Jamison.  _Manic-Depressive
Illness_, Oxford, New York, 1990.  Handbook.  Traditional review
of everything you ever wanted to know except the women's and
anti-psychiatry point of view.  938 pp.
 
Hershman.  _The Key to Genius: Manic-Depression and the Creative
Life_, Prometheus, 1988.  A discussion of imagination and
insanity.  
 
Klein, Donald F and Paul Wender.  _Understanding Depression_,
Oxford University Press, 1993.  Medical, bio-chemical
orientation.  Exceptionally clear portrait of depression. 
Excellent distinction between biochemical and psycho-social
depressions.  Dismisses anti-psychiatry movement.  Advocates
involving families, electroshock, involuntary medical
intervention.  
 
Meyer, Jeffrey.  _Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle_, Arbor,
1987.  The impact of lyric fantasies.
 
Miller, Alice.  _The Drama of the Gifted Child_, New York, Basic,
1981.  Beyond the biochemical to view depression and grandiosity
as related forms of narcissistic disturbance.
 
Millett, Kate.  _The Looney Bin Trip_.
 
Othmer, Ekkehard.  _Life on a Roller Coaster_, Washington, D C, PIA
Press, 1987.  Bipolar disorder as biochemical.  Assumes chronic
illness needing lifetime stabilization and adjunct psychotherapy.
Description of how to choose the correct family of medictions.  
 
Perlin, Michael.  _Mental Disability Law - Civil and Criminal_,
Charlottesville, Michie, 1989, 3 volumes.  New York Law School's
Federal Litigation Clinic Director includes cases and comments
from legal origins to right to die law.  Lawyerly and lucid.
 
Savan, Glenn.  _Goldman's Anatomy_, Doubleday, 1993.  A well
written novel about three lives formed by disability.  One male
character is bipolar.
 
Scheper-Hugher, Nancy and Anne Lovell.  _Psychiatry Inside Out_, 
New York, Columbia, 1987.  Basaglia writes about Italy's cultural
transformation and new treatment of the mad.
 
Starr, Paul.  _The Social Transformation of American Medicine_, 
New York, Basic, 1982.  This chronicle of modern medicine's
demagoguery won a Pulitzer.
 
Whybrow, ed  _Mood Disorders_
 
_Overcoming Depression_
 
Fieve, _Mood Swings_
 
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