Book Report containing 1500-5000 words on one of the books listed below. Also the questions needed addressing in the paper are listed, as well.
Questions you should address are:
Basically, your paper will be graded on the extent to which it seems you engaged with the book in a critical manner. Simply regurgitating the synopsis of the book will not do.
Grading Guidelines
Select One of these books
Possible books options are:
Cahalan, S. (2012). Brain on fire: My month of madness. Simon & Schuster (Paperback ISBN: 1451621388). 288 pages.
Grandin, T. (2013). The autistic brain: Thinking across the spectrum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Paperback ISBN: 0544227735). 206 pages.
Horowitz, A. (2003). Creating Mental Illness. University of Chicago Press (Paperback ISBN: 0226353826). 230 pages.
Kirsch, I. (2009). The emperor’s new drugs: Exploding the anti-depressant myth. Basic Books (Paperback
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ISBN: 0465022006). 240 pages.
Jamison, K. (1997). An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness. Vintage (Paperback ISBN: 0679763309). 224 pages.
Ronson, J. (2011). The psychopath test: A journey through the madness industry. Riverhead Trade (Paperback ISBN: 1594485755). 288 pages.
Sacks, O. (2008). Hallucinations. Vintage (Paperback ISBN: 0307947432). 294 pages.
Sapolsky, R. (2004). Why zebras don’t get ulcers. (3rd edition). Holt (Paperback ISBN: 0805073698). 418 pages in total, but in the interest of fairness, stop after chapter 13, if you can (= 274 pages).
Smith, D. (2012). Monkey mind: A memoir of anxiety. Simon & Schuster (Paperback ISBN: 1439177317). 224 pages.
Yalom, I. (2009). Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death. Jossey-Bass Publishing (Paperback ISBN: 0470401818). 278 pages.