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Our library is a unique and growing collection of books focused on mad studies and disability studies, offering a rich resource for those interested in exploring the cultural, historical, and personal narratives of madness and disability. From academic texts to memoirs, poetry, and theory, our collection provides critical insights into the experiences and contributions of mad and disabled individuals.
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10 Madnesses
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
4.48 Psychosis
73 Poems
A Frank O'Hara Notebok
A Jazz Funeral For Uncle Tom
A Mad People’s History of Madness (2 copies)
A Mad People’s History of Madness (2 copies)
A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Career of the Earth: an Indigenous American Perspective
A Pallette of Poems
A Philosophy of Madness
A Profession Without Reason
A Revolution of the Mind
A Season in Hell
A Treatise on Insanity
A User's manual
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Access Representation
Acute Religious Experiences
Administrations of Lunacy
Adventures in Pataphysics
Aesthetic Nervousness
After Sound
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Alfred Jarry
Alienation and Freedom
Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life: Its Measure and Form
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Alternatives to Policing Based on Disability Justice
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Antonin Atraud Collected Works Vol 1
Antonin Atraud Collected Works Vol 2
Antonin Atraud Collected Works Vol 3
Antonin Atraud Collected Works Vol 4
Art as Therapy
Art Brut: Jean Dubuffet’s revolution in art
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
Aster of Ceremonies
Asylum, Prinson, and Poorhouse: the writing and reform work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois
Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates
Atlas
b leeev abul char ak trs
Baroness Elsa
Basic Call to Consiousness
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
Being Heumann
Best Mind: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness
Bill Viola Writings 1973-1994
Bisa Butler Portraits
Black Bell
Black Elk Speaks
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness
Black Skin, White Masks
Blert
Body Sweats
Book of Fools
Brown Linoleum Green Lawns
Buck Studies
Cabinet, Issue 44 Winter 2011-2012
Calamities
Capitalist Realism
Catch Them Before They Fall: Psychoanalysis of breakdown
Central European Avant-gardes: Exchnages and Transformation, 1970-1930
Chanson Dada
Chaosophy
Charlie: the Portrait Series
Chrisptoher Knowles: In a Word
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Come In Alone
Comic Strip
Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Committed
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions
Complete Minimal Poems
Complete Plays
Concerto for the Left Hand
Conflict is Not Abuse
Conflictual Aesthetiics
Cracked: Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good
Crazy Like Us: The globalization of the American psyche (2 copies)
Crazy Like Us: The globalization of the American psyche (2 copies)
Create
Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil 1970
Darkness Moves
Das Narenschiff
Decoding Dictatorial Statues
De Koonnig
Debths
Degeneration
Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe
Desperate Remedies
Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
Dictee
Disability and Sexuality: an introductory guide for sex educators and able bodies allies
Disability Studies Reader
Discrete Catagories Forced Into Coupling
Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error
Divigations
Do the Write Thing
Do the Write Thing #3
Dog Ear
Down Below
Draw it With Your Eyes Close: The Art of the art Assignment
Drift
DSM-5
E E C C H H O O E E S S
Elementary Poetry
Envelope Poems
Essays: Critical and Clinical
Everything is Fine
Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, Pataphysician
f p then q Written 1976-2013
Feeld
Firewalkers: Radically rethinking mental illness
First and Fastest: Sharing the Experinces of Railways, Past and Present, Exploring Their Future - Autumn 2016
First and Fastest: Sharing the Experinces of Railways, Past and Present, Exploring Their Future - Spring 2016
For Fear of the Fire
Found Poems
Frog Pond Splash
Glass, Irony, and God
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death inside America's premier Hospital
H of H Playbook
Hearing (Our) Voices
Hearing Voices: A Common Human Experience
Hilma Af Klint: Notes and Methods
How to Go Mad Without Loosing Your Mind
How We Walk
I Mean You kNow
I Refuse for the Devil to Take My Soul
I, Little Asylum
Immersive Life Practice
In a Queer Time and Place
In Abstracto #2
In the realms of the Unreal: Insane Writings (2 copies)
In the realms of the Unreal: Insane Writings (2 copies)
In The Sky
Index -A
Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences
Installations and Experimental Printmaking
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and psychtiaric power in nineteenth century France
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives
Introduction to the Szondi Test
Invalid Modernism
Is Music
James Castle Facsimile
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Michel Basquiat
Jim Dine
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
K-Punk
Kaddish and Other Poems
Kiosk
Kleksographien
Knots
Krista Franklin
La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
Language and Thought in Schizophrenia
Language Madness and Desire: on Literature
Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemorary Art
Lectures and Conversations
Leonora Carrington: Reveltaion
Light Through Darkness
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Literatures of Madness
Living With Voices
Mad By the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization
Mad in America
Mad like Artaud
Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Mad World
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Compostion
Madcap: The Life of Syd Barrett
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors, and Lunatics
Madness
Madness
Madness
Madness and Civilization
Madness and Revolution
Madness in Civilization
Madness Network News Reader
Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatrues, and Art
Major Works
Manifesto
Maps to the Other Side
Margot Bergman
Martin Ramirez: Reframing Confinement
Medical Inquires and Obersvations upon Dieseases of the Mind
Mental Health User Narratives
Mental Illness and Social Policy: The American Experience
Mira Schendel Monotypes
Miserable Miracle
Monday Vol. 1
Monday Vol. 2
Monday Vol. 3
Monday Vol. 4
More than Meets the Eye
Movable Tyype
My Lobotomy
Newspaper Blackout
No Logo
Noise After Babel - Langugae Unrestrained
Not the Other Avant-garde: The Transnational Foundation of Avant-Garde Performance
Notes on Conceptualisms
Nothing Gold Can Stay
On Our Own
On the Construction Organization and General Arrangements of Hospital for the Insane
On the Writing of the Insane
Open House
Operating Systems
Oui
Our Voice No. 72
Our Voice No. 73
Our Voice No. 74
Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
Outsider Art
Overwrite: Ethics of Knowledge - Poetics of Existence
Paradigms Lost: Fighting Stigma and Lessons Learned
Parallel Visions
Pataphysical Essays
Perfidia
Performance Now
Performative Monuments
Phaedra’s and Letters VII and VIII
Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, After the Age of the Brain
Photography and Schizophrenia
Physics of Blackness
Plans For Sentences
Poems from the Asylum
Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics
Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
Poetry in Action
Politics of Experience
Pomegranates: A Collection of Poems
Postcolonial Love Poems
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postproduction
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Prophetika
Prosthetic Gods
Psych Murders (2 copies0
Psych Murders (2 copies0
Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health
Psychiatry Disrupted
Psychoanalysis and Transversality
Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice
Ray Johnson c/o
Reading and Writing Disabiity Differently
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry ini Paint
Recovering Sanity
Recovering the Sacred
Reference: Work
Regarding the Pain of Others
Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Law and Society)
Release
Rethinking Madness
Rimbaud Complete
Rupture Tense
Sanity Madness and the Family
Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Schizo-culture: The Book
Schizo-culture: The Event
Schizophrenia as a Human Process
Scizophrene
Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
Seeing the Insane (2 Copies)
Seeing the Insane (2 Copies)
Seeing the Insane: A visual and Cultural History of Our Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill
Selceted Works
Selected Poems
Selected Writings
Self and Others
Seven Pages Missing Vol 1
Seven Pages Missing Vol 2
Sho
Showing Out
Shrink Resistant
Shunned: Discrimination against people with Mental Illness
Signature Book #52
Silence
Sited Body, Public Visions
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People - A Disability Primer
Social Practices
Sonetomanija
Sonnet(s)
Speaking of Indigenous Politics
Special Effects: Advances in Neurology
Special Report of the Invetigation of the Managment of the Cook County Aslyum for the Insane
Split Level Poems
Starting From San Francisco
Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen
Studies in Occultism
Sur Le Fil
Surviving Schizophrenia
Tales of a Mad Yogi
Tao Te Ching
Telepathy
Ten Days in a Mad-House
That This
The “Euthanasia Institution” of Brandenburg an Der Havel
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
The Automatic Message
The Bell Jar
The Body
The Book of Margerie Kemp
The Clearing
The Collected Schizophrenias
The Complications: On Going Insane in America
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
The Denial of Death
The Dialectics of Liberation
The Diary of Frieda Kahlo: A New Perspective
The Don Quixote of Psychiatry
The Eden Express
The Four Suits
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
The Great Easter: Ambulatioin
The Inside of an Apple
The Invention of Madness
The Land of Invented Languages
The Lankavatara Sutra
The Last words of Dutch Schultze
The Letters of Oskar Schlemmer
The Life of the Madman of U
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
The Man of jasmine
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
The Matrix - Poems: 1960-1970
The Monotony of Being Well: a collection of poems and prose
The Myth of Mental illness
The Native American Herbalist's Bible
The Natural Mind
The notebooks
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modern Myths
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade
The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases
the Place of Scraps
The Plays from Alienation and Freedom
The Politics of Experience
The Pope’s Mustard Maker
The Projection of the Astral Body
The Protest Psychosis
The Psychiatric Writings From Alieenation and Freedom
The Right to Maim (2 copies)
The Right to Maim (2 copies)
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
The Savage Peace: Democracy's 2500 Years of Failure and the Legacy of Global Civil War
The Seduction of Madness
The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known
The Shame of the States
The Souls of Black Folk
The Spiritiual Gift of Madness
The Trial of Joan of Arc
The Two
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
The Wretched of the Earth
Theater
Theaters of Madness: insane asylums in nineteenth century american culture
Therapy's delusions
Therapy’s Delusions
They Say You’re Crazy: How the world’s most powerful psychiatrists decide who is normal
This Book is Better Than Ideal
This is Madness: A Critical Look at Psychiatry
This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond
Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing
Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Toxic Psychiatry
Track Changes: a Handbook for Art Criticism
Turner Studies
Ubu Roi
Ultrasanity on Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
Un/inhabited
Understanding Our Mind
Untitled
Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society
Vanished in Hiawatha
Vehicles
Voices of Madness
Voices of Madness
VOU: Visual Poetry, Tokio, 1958-1978
War Letters
When a Lifeboat is a Bird of Prey
Willem Van Genk - A Chronicle
Wind Through Quiet Tensions
Wolfli: Creator of the Universe
Women and Madness
Writhing Writing: Moving Towards a Mad Poetics
Writing in Space 1973-2019
Wrong Norma
Yes or Notes
Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists
Your Consent is Not Required (2 Copies ?)
Zapantera Negra: an Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas
Zong!
Anastaciia Reneee
Evan Reynolds
Fiona Tan
Sarah Kane
Goldsmith and La Barbara
Bil Berkson
Holiday
Ed. Peterson
Ed. Peterson
Arthur W. Blume
Assorted
Wouter Kusters
Bruce E. Levine
MV Perry
Arthur Rimbaud
Jiri Kolar
Siri Hustvedt
Assorted
Richard Saville-Smith
Mav Segrest
Alfred Jarry
Quayson
G. Douglas Barett
Susan Sontag
Brotchie
Frantz Fanon
Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding
Ed. Peter Stastny
The Abolitionist and Disability Justice Coalition
Robert Whittaker
Gilles Deluze and Felix Guattari
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Alain Devotten and John Armstrong
Hans Prinzhorn
Hans Prinzhorn
JJJJJerome Ellis
David L. Lightmer
Irving Goffman
Annabelle Binnerts
Bill Bissett
Gammel
Akwesane Notes, Chief Orens Lyons
Catherine Arnold
Judith Heumann
Weine
Warren
Alison C. Rollins
Neihardt
Theri Alyce Pickens
Frantz Fanon
Jordan Scott
Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven
Williams
Peter Campbell
Douglas Kearney
Magazine
Renee Gladman
Mark Fischer
Christopher Bollas
Lacma
Tristan Tzara
Felix Guattari
Warren Lehrer
Anothony Elms and others
Benjamin Frasier
Anselm Berger
Gerd Richter
Dinah Miller and Annette Hanson
Suzanne Scanlon
Susan Burch
Aram Saroyan
Sarah Kane
Davidson
Sarah Schulman
Olver Merchart
James Davies
Ethan Watters
Ethan Watters
Rinder
Henri Michaux
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Susan Howe
Max Nordau
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Andrew Scull
Ed. Carrie Noland and Barrett Watten
Cha
Ashley Hartman Annis
Ed. Lennard J. Davis
Kathleen Fraser
Carol Thomas Neely
Michael Davidson
Stephene Mallarrme
Erica Baum
Leonora Carrington
Caroline Bergvall
Andrei Monastyrski
Emily Dickinson
Gilles Deluze
Vince Granata
Alfred Jarry
P. Inman
Jos Charles
Meltzer
Bern Porter
Ray Johnson
Anne Carson
Alex Beam
Anne Carson
Schneider
John Watkins
Ed. Christine Burgin
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Matthew Beaumont
Warren Lehrer
Lili Kobielski
Emmanuelle Guattari
Jacob Zeller
Judith Halbersstam
Ed. John G.H. Oaks
Ed. John G.H. Oaks
Octave Mirbeau
Charles Wilkin
Thomas S. Szasz
Alexia Tala
Jessie Hewitt
Silvano Arieti
Ed. Andrea Daley and Merick D. Pilling
Deri
Davidson
John Taggart
James Castle
Valarie da Costa
Buchart
Jim Dine
Mark Vonnegut
Mark Fischer
Allen Ginsberg
Justinus Kerner
R.D. Lainge
Krista Franklin
Cristina Rivera Garza
Ed. J.S. Kasanin M.D.
Micheal Foucault
Kaira N. Cabanas
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ed Herman Landshoff
Henri Michaux
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Ed. Elizabeth J Donaldson
Ed. Prof Marius Romme and others
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Robert Whittaker
Sylvere Lotringer
Ed. LeFrancois, Menzies, and Reaume
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Lisa Fishman
Tim Willis
Roy Porter
Michel Foucault
Roy Porter
Sam Sax
Michel Foucault
Elisabeth Roudinesco
Andrew Scull
Ed. Jessica Lowell Mason, Nicole Crevar
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mary Ann Caws
Sascha Altman DuBrul
Lynne Cooke and others
Benjamin Rush M.D.
Ed. Bruce MZ Cohen
Albert Deutsch
Snoeck
Henri Michaux
Various
Various
Various
Various
Kleege
Howard Dully
Austin Kleon
Naomi Klein
Sezgin Boynik
Harding and Rouse
Place and Fitterman
Pooja Pittie
Judi Chamberlin
Thomas Story Kirkbride
G. Mackenzie Bacon
Hannah Weiner
Joe Pan
Salvador Dali
Various
Various
Various
Will Hall
Coliin Rhodes
Armen Avanesian
Heather Stuart, Julio Arboleda-Florez, Norman Sartorius
Rene Daumal
Sky Hopinka
Ed. Roselee Goldberg
Wildrich
Plato
Alphonse De Waelhens and Wilfred Ver Eecke
Jean Manthei
Wright
Renee Galdman
Martha Nasch
Kurt Schwitters
Frederick Burwick
Vlado Martek
R.D. Lainge
Sarah Panahi
Natalie Diaz
Frederic Jameson
Nicolas Bouriaud
Ariella Aisha Azoulay
Sun Ra
Hal Foster
Stephanie Hiet
Stephanie Hiet
Ed. Incayawar, Wintrob, and Bouchard
Burston, LeFrancois, and Diamond
Felix Guattari
Merrick Daniel Pilling
Haskell and Carter
Titchkosky
Jacobus
Edward M Podvoll
Winona LaDuke
Susan Sontag
McLaren, Menzies and Chunn
Judith Roston Freilich
Paris Williams
Arthur Rimbaud
Jenny Xie
R.D. Lainge
R.D. Lainge
Ed. Sylvere Lotringer
Ed. Sylvere Lotringer
Harry Stack Sullivan
Bhanu Kapil
Ed. Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney
Gilman
Gilman
Sander L Gilman
Yi Sang
Rabindratnath Tagore
Charles Olson
R.D. Lainge
McCaffery
McCaffery
Douglas Kearney
Timothy Reed
Ed. Barstow and Weitz
Graham Thornicroft
Stan Shellabarger
John Cage
Ernesto Pujol
Sins Invalid
Chris Kraus
Vlado Martek
Ulises Carrion
Kauanui
Neil Marcus
Cook County
Rosaire Appel
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sasha Warren
Pickover
Blavatsky
E. Fuller Torrey
Elizabeth L Monson
Trans. Stephen Mitchell
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Nellie Bly
Susan Howe
Ed. Astrid Ley
Carla Yanni
Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault
Sylvia Plath
Jenny Boully
Margerie kemp
JJJJJerome Ellis
Esme Weijun Wang
Emmett Rensin
James Baldwin
Ernest Becker
Stokely Carmichael, David Cooper, R.D. Laing, Herbert Marcuse
Freida Kahlo
Victor Robinson
Mark Vonnegut
Charlie English
Jacques Besse
Joshua Beckman
Emily Baum
Arika Okrent
D.T. Suzuki
Wlliam Burroughs
Ed. Tut Schlemmer
DiValerio
Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
Unica Zurn
John Foot
N.H. Pritchard
Sarah Panahi
Thomas S. Szasz
Maya Davis
Andrew Weil
Jean Michel Basquiat
Julian Jaynes
Krauss
Peter Weiss
Morison
Jordan Abel
Frantz Fanon
R.D. Lainge
Alfred Jarry
Muldoon and Carrington
Johnathan M Metzel
Frantz Fanon
Jasbir K Puar
Jasbir K Puar
Ed. Peter Beresford and Jasna Russo
Sasha Durakov
Edward M Podvoll
Christophar Bollas
Albert Deutsch
W.E.B. Du Bois
Seth Farber, Ph.D.
Scott
Joseph Colyer
Susan M. Schweik
Frantz Fanon
Assorted
Benjamin Reiss
Ethan Watters
Ethan Watters
Paula J Caplan
Vlado Martek
Ed. Craig Newnes
Mike Jay
Terry Clifford
Phil Smith
Jamison
Breggin
Ed. Mira Dayal
Alfred Jarry
Jordan Abel
Thich Naht Hanh
Megan Sterling
Antonin Artaud
Carla Joinson
Assorted
Ed. Allan Ingram
Ed. Allan Ingram
Ed. Taylor Mignon
Jaquees Vache
Sebastian (Seb) Doak
Nico van der Endt
Adam Grossi
Manuel Anceau
Phyllis Chesler
Smith
Lorainne O'Grady and Aruna D'Souza
Anne Carson
Sargent
Rob Wipond
Ed. Marc James Leger and David Tomas
M. NorBesse Philips
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