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12 books with a reading profile close to Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

by Catherine Gildiner

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Catherine Gildiner recounts five singular cases from her twenty-five years as a clinical psychologist, focusing on patients who endured extreme childhood neglect and physical abuse.
2

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

by Christie Tate

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Christie Tate arrives at Dr.
3

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Henry Marsh provides a candid account of his decades spent as a consultant neurosurgeon, focusing on the high-stakes reality of intracranial procedures.
4

I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED

by Jennette McCurdy

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Jennette McCurdy recounts her childhood as a professional actor, detailing the control her mother, Debbie, exerted over her career and anatomy.
5

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

by Christiane V. Felscherinow

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Christiane Felscherinow narrates her descent into heroin addiction in 1970s West Berlin, beginning with her experimentation with hashish and pills at age twelve.
6

Solito

by Javier Zamora

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Nine-year-old Javier Zamora departs his small town in El Salvador to reunite with his parents in the United States, traveling three thousand miles without his family.
7

A Million Little Pieces

by James Frey

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

James Frey recounts his arrival at a Minnesota rehabilitation center following years of severe alcohol and drug dependency.
8

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

Jeannette Walls chronicles her upbringing within a nomadic family led by a brilliant but alcoholic father, Rex, and an artistic, detached mother, Rose Mary.
9

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

by Bruce D. Perry

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Bruce Perry illustrates how extreme trauma and neglect reshape the physical architecture of the developing human brain.
10

Lucky

by Alice Sebold

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative

In 1981, as a freshman at Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was raped and beaten in a public park.
11

Small Fry: A Memoir

by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Lisa Brennan-Jobs details her upbringing as the daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs.
12

Somebody's Daughter

by Ashley C. Ford

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Ashley C.

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