📚 Mentally Ill Persons

Books with mentally ill persons on their catalogue record, first published between 1822 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mentally ill persons in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 701 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat	Oliver Sacks	1980	62
	Abnormal psychology	David H. Barlow	1995	45
	A Beautiful Mind	Sylvia Nasar	1998	35
	Asylums	Erving Goffman	1961	26
	A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity	Isaac Ray	1838	22
	Dnevnik Vat͡s︡lava Nizhinskogo	Vaslav Nijinsky	1936	22
	Classic Case Studies in Psychology	Geoff Rolls	2005	17
	Mental Health Act 1983	Rand McNally	1983	12
	How to Change Your Mind	Michael Pollan	2018	12
	An unquiet mind	Kay R. Jamison	1995	11
	Responsibility in mental disease	Henry Maudsley	1874	10
	The man of genius	Cesare Lombroso	1891	10
	The treatment of insanity	John M. (John Minson) Galt	1846	9
	Crazy	Pete Earley	2006	8
	Abnormal Psychology	William J. Ray	2014	8
	Addicted and Mentally Ill	Carol Bucciarelli	2004	7
	Intellectual disability, trauma, and psychotherapy	Tamsin Cottis	2008	7
	Psychiatric rehabilitation	Carlos W. Pratt	2006	6
	Mad Girl	Bryony Gordon	2016	5
	Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice	N. Arthur Heywood	1907	4
	The Air Loom Gang	Mike Jay	2003	4
	A Road Back from Schizophrenia	Arnhild Lauveng	2005	4
	What is mental illness?	Richard J. McNally	2011	4
	Unhinged	Anna Berry	2014	4
	No one cares about crazy people	Ron Powers	2017	4
	Le divorce des aliénés	Lucien Graux	1912	3
	Life Too Short	Ronald Reng	2011	3
	A description of the crimes and horrors in the interior of Warburton's private mad-house at Hoxton, commonly called Whitmore House	John Mitford	1822	2
	Lunacy practice	N. Arthur Heywood	1900	2
	Neurodiversity	Thomas Armstrong	2010	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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