Books for Mental Health Awareness Month

By Coll Rowe | April 11 2024 | Psychology

For Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we are sharing books to educate and raise awareness about mental health and the various factors that may affect it, and to provide tools and resources for student wellness. Find our full collection of titles here.

The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
9780593655030
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
$30.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Penguin Press
The Cure for Burnout
The Cure for Burnout
How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
Emily Ballesteros
9780593596319
“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers eager to reclaim their time and energy.” —Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
$28.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
The Dial Press
How Not to Kill Yourself
How Not to Kill Yourself
A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
Clancy Martin
9780593466926

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and philosophy professor, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.”

$19.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Paperback
464 Pages
Vintage
The Biology of Kindness
The Biology of Kindness
Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity
Immaculata De Vivo, Daniel Lumera
9780262547659
How kindness—and other prosocial behaviors toward others—can help us live longer and healthier lives.
$24.95 US
Mar 19, 2024
Paperback
264 Pages
The MIT Press
The Science of Stuck
The Science of Stuck
Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
Britt Frank, LSCSW
9780593542859

Licensed psychotherapist Britt Frank, LSCSW shares her therapeutic framework that enables individuals to move from feeling stuck to flexible, curious, and enlivened.

$18.00 US
Jul 11, 2023
Paperback
272 Pages
TarcherPerigee
Building a Life Worth Living
Building a Life Worth Living
A Memoir
Marsha M. Linehan
9780812984996
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
$21.00 US
Jan 05, 2021
Paperback
384 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
The Edge of Every Day
The Edge of Every Day
Sketches of Schizophrenia
Marin Sardy
9780525434320
Against the starkly beautiful backdrop of Anchorage, Alaska, where she grew up, Marin Sardy weaves an extraordinarily affecting, fiercely intelligent account of the shapeless thief—the schizophrenia—that kept her mother immersed in a world of private delusion and later also manifested in her brother, ultimately claiming his life.
$17.00 US
Apr 28, 2020
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
Defining Mental Disorder
Defining Mental Disorder
Jerome Wakefield and His Critics
9780262045643
Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.
$110.00 US
Feb 16, 2021
Hardcover
640 Pages
The MIT Press
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