Mental Health: Mind Matters is the latest touring exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center that explores how mental health is part of our overall health. By reading about the ways mental illness affects us or how to effectively process our emotions, we can all become healthier together. The books on this list are recommended by the exhibition creators and the Carnegie Science Center as a way of raising awareness of mental illness and why it is relevant to our everyday lives, whether it impacts ourselves or our loved ones.
Check out these titles suggested by staff at the Carnegie Science Center.
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With unflinching honesty and heart, this relatable debut from a fresh new voice explores grief and mental health while capturing the timeless nature of what it’s like to be young and in love—with your friends, with your city, and with a person who cannot, will not, love you back.
This title is also available for checkout in eAudio on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In “The Body Keeps the Score,” he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
In “Chatter,” acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies–from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy–Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with–of all things–her mind.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
In an illustrated memoir, the creator of the Bloggess blog shares humorous stories from her life, including her awkward upbringing in Texas and her relationship with her husband.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself?
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
A young witch partners with a powerful ghost to save her sister–but when the competition turns deadly, his help may very well damn her instead.
This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the ‘weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness … about marriage and children and memory … about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.’
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that’s probably going to the new man-doctor. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.