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📚 Unlock Psych Reading Circle – Help Us Choose Our Next Book!
Hi everyone! 💙
Our Unlock Psych Reading Circle meets this Thursday at 5:30 PM Pacific, and I’d love your input before we gather.
We’ve been reading Mad in America by Robert Whitaker, but since we haven’t gotten very far into it, I wanted to check in with everyone.
Would you like to continue with Mad in America, or would you rather start fresh with a new book?
When we first started the Reading Circle, this was our original list of books we were considering:
📖 Unlock Psych Reading Circle Books
- Mad in America — Robert Whitaker
- Committed — Dinah Miller & Annette Hanson
- Desperate Remedies — Andrew Scull
- Experiences of Mental Health In-Patient Care — Mark Hardcastle, David Kennard, Sheila Gradison, & Leonard Fagin
- Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum — Steven J. Taylor & Alice Brumby
- Narratives of Recovery from Serious Mental Illness — William Tucker
- Speaking Our Minds: An Anthology — Jim Read & Jill Reynolds
- The First Resort — Mathew Smith
- The Source & Development of Social & Community Psychiatry — David G. Satin
You’re also welcome to suggest any other book you’d love for us to read together! I’m very resourceful when it comes to finding free, legal digital copies or library access, so don’t hesitate to recommend something that’s meaningful to you. There will be no need to purchase the book unless you want a physical copy for yourself as I will likely be able to get a digital copy of the book for us. I also have a quite a large personal collection of digital mental health books such as books on philosophy, recovery, therapy workbooks, psychology, somatic healing, therapeutic modalities, self-help, fiction, autobiographies etc. if you would like any ebooks. Please message me if you would like any access to it.
Please leave your thoughts in the comments preferable before the Reading Circle on Thursday. Since we likely won't have a definite book from many answers by Thursday since today is Wednesday, I'll plan on just continuing to read Mad in America or perhaps some poetry tomorrow until we gather more responses for the final decision later on. Or perhaps we can sample some of the books tomorrow and explore what we might want to decide on. That might be a good way to decide what to choose! 🤗
🗓 Reading Circle: Thursday
🕠 Reading Circle Meeting Time: 5:30 PM Pacific
You can join through the Calendar tab on the Unlock Psych website.
Thank you all for being part of this community. I really appreciate each of you, and I’m looking forward to continuing to learn, reflect, and grow together.
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📚 Unlock Psych Reading Circle – Help Us Choose Our Next Book!
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