Robert Whitaker

5 books

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Robert Whitaker

404 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology science informative slow-paced
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, Robert Whitaker

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, Robert Whitaker

205 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology emotional informative sad slow-paced
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

Robert Whitaker

372 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker

On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

Robert Whitaker

386 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race true crime reflective slow-paced
Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform by Lisa Cosgrove, Robert Whitaker

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Lisa Cosgrove, Robert Whitaker

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced