Books like The Minds of Billy Milligan
12 books with a reading profile close to The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes. Inward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, narrative
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, uses her family history to analyze the behavioral patterns of the 45th President.
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
Sarah Krasnostein profiles Sandra Pankhurst, a woman whose daily work involves sanitizing the aftermath of homicides, suicides, and chronic hoarding.
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight drove his car into the Maine woods, abandoned it, and disappeared into the forest.
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Michael Lewis chronicles the intellectual partnership between Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Marya Hornbacher chronicles her fifteen-year struggle with severe eating disorders, detailing the physiological and psychological mechanics of anorexia and bulimia.
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Hayden Herrera tracks the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo from her childhood in Coyoacán through the catastrophic bus accident that left her in permanent physical pain.
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Sybil
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Flora Rheta Schreiber documents the psychiatric case of Shirley Ardell Mason, referred to by the pseudonym Sybil Dorsett.
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We Are Water
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Annie Oh, a Connecticut artist, leaves her husband of twenty-seven years for her art dealer, Viveca, a woman, and announces their wedding.
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, psychology
Portia de Rossi chronicles her descent into anorexia and bulimia while starring on the television show Ally McBeal.
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Prozac Nation
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Elizabeth Wurtzel chronicles her decades-long struggle with atypical depression, beginning with her childhood in a fractured household and continuing through her chaotic years at Harvard.
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Small Fry: A Memoir
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, psychology
Lisa Brennan-Jobs details her upbringing as the daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs.
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Bruce Perry illustrates how extreme trauma and neglect reshape the physical architecture of the developing human brain.
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