Good books on mental illness? Can be fiction, non-fiction,

>>9390864
Girl, Interrupted

also inb4 my diary desu

>>9390864
zeno's conscience,
anatomy of melancholy,
iunno, stuff by freud?

>>9390864
my wife hat

>>9390864
the atrocity exhibition

The Stranger

Metamorphosis is the best story of a shut in neet living with his family I've ever read

my diary desu

>>9390864
You already posted it.

It's a masterpiece.

>>9390923
It's one of the most amazing works I've read yet I hesitate to call it a masterpiece given that it wasn't written for literary purposes

the bible XD

>>9390864
Kafka - The trail

protip: he never left his room, he just imagined being arrested and everything that happened after

>>9390932
Authorial intent... are we in 60s?

Dark Spring - Unica Zurn
The Fatal Bodice - Alina Reyes
Pilgrim - Timothy Findley
My Diary - Desu

>>9390903
He wasn't a shut-in NEET though. He had a job.

I'm reading this now and it's really good. Gold mine of Further Reading.

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>>9390975

(first time I bought a book that I found on Google Books after Googling text... will do again...)

>>9390864
Woyzeck

>>9390950
holy....

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Written by the lead singer of Throwing Muses, who hallucinates due to a head injury as a teen.

>>9390903
This. It's not supposed to be taken literally. It was all in his neural ganglions.

>>9390864
Karinthy Frigyes - Journey Around My Head. Not really mental illness as much as neurologic damage due to a brain tumour. Pretty good writing for a guy with a tumour in his head, désü.

>>9390954
regardless of intent it's difficult ascribe to it the necessary aesthetic values for which a declaration of masterpiece status can be made (masterpiece of *what?*). certainly one can read it as if it were penned as a novel, as art, but we would lose out on some of the psychological richness of the book in doing so imo

>>9390864

Artaud

>>9391102
Was Artaud cuckoo in the head?

infinitejest is basically being inside dfw warped mind

>>9390864
The Noonday Demon.