Course map

Each selected work is linked to the public OpenStax Psychology 2e sections where its psychological themes, methods, or theories are taught. Use it to move from a novel, memoir, or monograph to its paired empirical research and textbook reading.

How to use this map

60 works map to 52 sections in 16 chapters, with 127 links in total. All 127 links point to the nearest conceptual textbook section and state that scope explicitly. Section titles and URLs were verified against the public OpenStax table of contents. No textbook page numbers are cited.

The course map is an educational bridge, not clinical evidence. Connecting a novel or memoir to a chapter on memory, social influence, or psychological disorders helps illustrate course concepts; it never diagnoses a fictional character or substitutes for empirical research.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology

1.2 History of Psychology

1890: The Principles of Psychology (William James)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Situates William James and functionalism in the early institutional history of psychology.
1899: The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)Historical context. Academic, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places Freud and early psychoanalytic theory in the historical development of clinical psychology.
1902: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (William James)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places James's work in the history of early American psychology.
1930: Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places the essay in the history of psychoanalysis within psychology.
1938: The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis (B. F. Skinner)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places the book in the history of behaviorism within psychology.
2018: Atomic Habits (James Clear)Historical context. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links modern trade habit advice back to early functionalist discussions of habit in psychology.

Chapter 2: Psychological Research

2.2 Approaches to Research

1903: The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)Method. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Highlights both the rich detail and the generalizability limits of longitudinal single-case educational records.
1985: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)Method. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Examines the role and generalizability limits of clinical case studies in neuropsychology.

2.3 Analyzing Findings

2011: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)Method. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Illustrates how intuitive probability judgments diverge from formal statistical reasoning.
2024: The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)Method. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Illustrates why correlational trends between technology adoption and youth distress require careful evaluation before inferring causation.

2.4 Ethics

1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)Ethics and limits. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Discuss responsibility for the welfare of beings affected by an investigation.
1966: Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)Ethics and limits. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested ethics question: how much power would a participant have in the imagined research relationship?
1974: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Stanley Milgram)Ethics and limits. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.The 1963 abstract reports marked nervous tension in some participants, which is one reason the procedure is discussed in research ethics.

Chapter 3: Biopsychology

3.1 Human Genetics

1872: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Charles Darwin)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Darwin's evolutionary framing connects to the chapter's section on genetics and natural selection; the match to that section's text was not checked.

3.2 Cells of the Nervous System

1949: The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory (Donald O. Hebb)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of neurons and synapses.

3.4 The Brain and Spinal Cord

1985: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects focal neurological lesions and cortical specialization to introductory discussions of the brain and nervous system.
1998: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: brain organization and plasticity.

Chapter 4: States of Consciousness

4.1 What Is Consciousness?

1603: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare awareness of one’s own thoughts with dramatic inner speech.
1890: The Principles of Psychology (William James)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects James's questions about continuous waking awareness and selective attention to introductory discussions of consciousness.
1925: Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare awareness of internal and external experience.
1990: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: absorbed attention and changed sense of time.

4.3 Stages of Sleep

1899: The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)Concept. Academic, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Contrasts historical psychodynamic accounts of dreaming with modern physiological and cognitive sleep research.

4.6 Other States of Consciousness

1902: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (William James)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects the lectures on mystical and religious states to the chapter's coverage of other states of consciousness; the match to that section's text was not checked.

Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception

5.1 Sensation versus Perception

1892: The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare expectations and interpretation in perception.
1985: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Offered as a discussion neighbor for the perception chapter; no case in the book was inspected for this profile.
1998: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: how vision and touch signals combine in perception.

5.5 The Other Senses

1903: The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Illustrates how somatosensory and kinesthetic perception support communication and spatial awareness.

Chapter 6: Learning

6.1 What Is Learning?

1949: The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory (Donald O. Hebb)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects the book's account of learning to the chapter's introduction to what learning is.
2012: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: what learning is.

6.3 Operant Conditioning

1938: The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis (B. F. Skinner)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of operant conditioning, a field Skinner is associated with.
2012: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: operant conditioning and reinforcement.
2018: Atomic Habits (James Clear)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects environmental cues and behavioral reinforcement in everyday routines to operant conditioning.

Chapter 7: Thinking and Intelligence

7.1 What Is Cognition?

1932: Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (Frederic C. Bartlett)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links Bartlett's concept of schemas to how mental concepts and expectations organize new information.
2011: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links intuitive versus deliberative judgment to introductory concepts in cognition.

7.2 Language

1903: The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects tactile finger-spelling and symbolic reference to introductory psychology discussions of language and lexicon acquisition.

7.3 Problem Solving

2011: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects representativeness, availability, and anchoring heuristics to problem solving and decision-making pitfalls.

7.4 What Are Intelligence and Creativity?

1966: Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: what intelligence testing measures and what a judgment about a person’s worth would mean.
1981: The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould)Concept. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: debates about what intelligence is.
1983: Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)Concept. Academic, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of what intelligence is and how theories of it differ.
1995: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: whether intelligence should be defined more broadly.

7.5 Measures of Intelligence

1981: The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould)Historical context. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: the history of measuring intelligence.
1983: Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)Method. Academic, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Raises the question of how any proposed kind of intelligence would be measured.

Chapter 8: Memory

8.1 How Memory Functions

1861: Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare retrospective narration with autobiographical remembering.
1914: Dubliners (James Joyce)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Discuss retrieval cues and autobiographical recollection.
1932: Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (Frederic C. Bartlett)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects Bartlett's schema-driven account of remembering to how memory encoding and retrieval function.
1969: Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested contrast: remembering a life and arranging its events in a narrative.
1987: Beloved (Toni Morrison)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: autobiographical memory and the novel’s representation of a past that remains present.
2005: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: retrospective narration and autobiographical memory.

8.3 Problems with Memory

1932: Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (Frederic C. Bartlett)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Relates reconstructive memory to suggestibility, distortion, and retrieval reconstruction errors.
1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested contrast: deliberate alteration of public records versus errors in personal remembering.

Chapter 9: Lifespan Development

9.2 Lifespan Theories

1866: Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Use moral reasoning as a framework for discussing the debate.
1950: Childhood and Society (Erik H. Erikson)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects the book to chapter coverage of lifespan theories of development.
2018: Educated: A Memoir (Tara Westover)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: lifespan theories of identity.

9.3 Stages of Development

1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare the need for responsive relationships with introductory social development.
2005: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: friendship and identity from school years to adulthood.
2018: Educated: A Memoir (Tara Westover)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: adolescence and emerging adulthood, including identity change.
2024: The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)Concept. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects debates over childhood play, peer socialization, and adolescent development to stages of lifespan development.

Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion

10.1 Motivation

1847: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (Charlotte Brontë)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare self-endorsed action with external pressure.
1954: Motivation and Personality (Abraham H. Maslow)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of motivation, where Maslow's work is a standard reference.
1957: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Leon Festinger)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects Festinger's motivational drive toward cognitive consistency to broader theories of motivation.
2018: Atomic Habits (James Clear)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Contrasts popular habit-system advice with psychological theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

10.4 Emotion

1872: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Charles Darwin)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of emotion, including expression.
1890: The Principles of Psychology (William James)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Introduces the historical James-Lange peripheral theory alongside later critiques and cognitive models of emotion.
1914: Dubliners (James Joyce)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Examine how an account changes the listener’s emotional interpretation.
1942: The Stranger (Albert Camus)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested question: what expectations does a reader bring to a character’s expression of emotion?
1995: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: emotion.

Chapter 11: Personality

11.1 What Is Personality?

1886: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare literary identity with introductory questions about personality.

11.2 Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective

1899: The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)Concept. Academic, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Introduces the psychodynamic perspective on unconscious conflict, defense mechanisms, and clinical interpretation.
1930: Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Freud is the subject of this chapter section on the psychodynamic perspective, which includes his claims about drives and conflict.

11.3 Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney

1941: Escape from Freedom (Erich Fromm)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Neighboring topic: the section covers neo-Freudian thinkers, and Fromm is not named in its title. Whether the chapter text mentions him was not checked.
1950: Childhood and Society (Erik H. Erikson)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Erikson is named in the title of this chapter section on neo-Freudian approaches to personality.

11.4 Learning Approaches

1948: The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Relates Bandura's social-cognitive perspective on self-regulation and moral agency to how ordinary people rationalize harmful conduct.

11.5 Humanistic Approaches

1847: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (Charlotte Brontë)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Explore self-concept and personal agency.
1946: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: meaning and agency in humanistic approaches.
1954: Motivation and Personality (Abraham H. Maslow)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects self-actualization to the humanistic approaches to personality covered in the chapter.

11.7 Trait Theorists

2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Susan Cain)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects popular discussions of introversion and extraversion to trait theorists and the Five-Factor Model.

11.8 Cultural Understandings of Personality

2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Susan Cain)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Relates Cain's cultural critique of extraversion norms to cultural understandings of personality.

Chapter 12: Social Psychology

12.1 What Is Social Psychology?

1942: The Stranger (Albert Camus)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested question: what can and cannot be inferred about another person from a first-person account?
1954: The Nature of Prejudice (Gordon W. Allport)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places the book in the general study of how people think about and act toward others.
1956: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects the situational view of the self to the chapter's introduction to social psychology.
1957: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Leon Festinger)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places dissonance theory alongside situational and cognitive explanations of social behavior.

12.2 Self-presentation

1861: Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Discuss self-presentation and the influence of social evaluation.
1886: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Examine the relationship between public identity and private conduct.
1956: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of self-presentation.

12.3 Attitudes and Persuasion

1866: Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare rationalization with attitude–behavior conflict.
1957: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Leon Festinger)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Introduces cognitive dissonance, attitude-behavior inconsistency, and persuasion in social psychology.

12.4 Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience

1941: Escape from Freedom (Erich Fromm)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Thematic neighbor of conformity and obedience; Fromm's book is a theoretical argument, not a study of those behaviors.
1948: The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects the village's adherence to an inherited annual drawing to conformity, social norms, and compliance.
1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: authority and compliance in a fictional political system.
1962: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: institutional rules, authority, and situational power.
1974: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Stanley Milgram)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of conformity, compliance and obedience.
1985: The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: social norms and enforced roles in a fictional coercive regime.

12.5 Prejudice and Discrimination

1915: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Discuss stigma, social evaluation and exclusion.
1954: The Nature of Prejudice (Gordon W. Allport)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Connects to chapter coverage of prejudice and discrimination.
1958: Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: colonial domination and intergroup relations; the novel is not a cultural sample.
1960: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: racial prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination in judgments about an individual.
1979: Kindred (Octavia E. Butler)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: prejudice, discrimination, and the coercive power in Dana’s historical setting.
1985: The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: gender discrimination and unequal institutional roles.
2015: The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Use the premise as a discussion prompt about prejudice and concealment; this is an interpretive connection.

12.6 Aggression

1948: The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links the collective stoning of a selected neighbor to social determinants of aggression and diffusion of responsibility.

Chapter 13: Industrial-Organizational Psychology

13.3 Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work

2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Susan Cain)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links questions about open-plan offices, teamwork, and individual work styles to organizational psychology.

Chapter 14: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health

14.1 What Is Stress?

1946: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: stress and coping under extreme conditions.

14.2 Stressors

1915: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Compare chronic occupational and family pressures.
2015: The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Relates catastrophic environmental upheaval, bereavement, and chronic threat to major life stressors.

14.3 Stress and Illness

2014: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)Concept. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: stress, the body and illness.

14.4 Regulation of Stress

1603: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Contrast repetitive thinking with coping and problem solving.
2015: The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links identity-threat appraisals and threat-reduction efforts under oppression to stress regulation and coping.

14.5 The Pursuit of Happiness

1990: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: flow in discussions of happiness and positive psychology.
2006: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Jonathan Haidt)Concept. Nonfiction, popular synthesis. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: happiness, virtue and meaning.

Chapter 15: Psychological Disorders

15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?

1990: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (William Styron)Historical context. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: how psychological distress is described by the person who has it.
1995: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Kay Redfield Jamison)Historical context. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: how a clinician and a patient can describe the same disorder.

15.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders

1993: Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)Ethics and limits. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: diagnostic labels, stigma and their limits.

15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders

1961: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Erving Goffman)Concept. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.One of the essays concerns the medical model of mental hospitalization, which connects to chapter perspectives on psychological disorders.

15.4 Anxiety Disorders

2024: The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)Concept. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Links public discussions of rising youth worry and social evaluation to introductory material on anxiety disorders.

15.6 Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

1925: Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)Historical context. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Use trauma as a separate course topic without diagnosing a character.
1969: Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested interpretive question: how might a reader approach the novel’s war experience through a trauma perspective?
1987: Beloved (Toni Morrison)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: how the novel represents the aftermath of enslavement; no character is diagnosed.
2014: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)Concept. Nonfiction, contested claims. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: trauma- and stressor-related disorders.

15.7 Depressive, Bipolar, and Related Disorders

1963: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)Concept. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested comparison: descriptions of psychological distress in a novel and the language of clinical categories; no diagnosis is inferred.
1990: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (William Styron)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: depressive disorders described in the first person.
1995: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Kay Redfield Jamison)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: bipolar and related disorders.
2001: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)Concept. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: depressive disorders.

Chapter 16: Therapy and Treatment

16.1 Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present

1892: The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)Historical context. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Discuss historical treatment and the place of patient voice.
1961: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Erving Goffman)Historical context. Academic, primary scholarship. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Places Goffman's account of mental hospitals within the history of mental health treatment.
1962: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)Historical context. Fiction, interpretive reading. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Suggested historical comparison: a fictional ward and the history of mental health treatment.
1993: Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)Historical context. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: psychiatric hospital care in the past.

16.2 Types of Treatment

2001: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)Historical context. Nonfiction, clinical or lived narrative. Nearest related section; provides conceptual background.Candidate link: types of treatment, since the author's page says the book covers the range of drug treatments.