Recommended Reading
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Bakewell, Sarah. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. Other Press, 2010.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Brown, Lachlan. Hidden Secrets of Buddhism: How to Live With Maximum Impact and Minimum Ego. Brown Brothers Media, 2024.
Burkeman, Oliver. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Carr, Nicholas. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Crews, Frederick. Freud: The Making of an Illusion. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Revenge of The Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, 2002.
Huston, Therese. Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science. New York: Atria Books, May 2, 2023.
Metzl, Jonathan. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
Moody, Liz. 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
Pakman, David. The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America. Broadleaf Books, 2023.
Pueblo, Yung. How To Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness and Compassion. Rider & Co, 2025.
Sapolsky, Robert. Determined: Life Without Free Will. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2023.
Scull, Andrew. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Torres Medina, Felipe. America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2024.
Torrey, E. Fuller. The Death of Psychiatry. Penguin Books, 1975.
Torrey, E. Fuller. The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
Torrey, E. Fuller. Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and its Future. HarperCollins, 1986.
Ulrich, Karen. How to Write Your Life Story: The Complete Guide to Creating a Personal Memoir. New York: Reader’s Digest, 2006.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House, 2020.
Yalom, Irvin D. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
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Published Works by Vincent Abad, M.D.
Abad, Vincent, and Enrique Boyce. “A Model of Delivery of Mental Health Services to Spanish-Speaking Minorities.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 44, no. 4 (1974): 556–561.
Abad, Vincent, and Enrique Boyce. “Issues in Psychiatric Evaluations of Puerto Ricans: A Socio-Cultural Perspective.” Journal of Operational Psychiatry 10, no. 1 (1979): 25–31.
Abad, Vincent, and Fernando Ovsiew. “Treatment of Persistent Myoclonic Tardive Dystonia with Verapamil.” British Journal of Psychiatry 162 (1993): 554–556.
Abad, Vincent, Luis Garcia, and Ricardo Sanchez. “Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: A Review of Current Issues and Priorities.” La Luz, Special Bicentennial Edition on Hispanic and Human Services (Denver, CO), June 1976.
Abad, Vincent, Jorge Ramos, and Enrique Boyce. “Clinical Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of Puerto Ricans.” In Transcultural Psychiatry: An Hispanic Perspective, edited by E. R. Padilla and A. M. Padilla, Monograph No. 4. Los Angeles: Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center, 1976.
Abad, Vincent, and José Suarez. “Cross-Cultural Aspects of Alcoholism Among Puerto Ricans.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Alcoholism Conference of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, DHEW Publication No. (ADM) 76-284. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.
Abad, Vincent. “Mental Health Delivery Systems for Hispanics in the United States: Issues and Dilemmas.” In Health & Behavior: Research Agenda for Hispanics, The Research Monograph Series No. 1, 278–292. Simon Bolivar Hispanic American Psychiatric Research and Training Center, 1987.
Henkin, R., E. Rallo, and Vincent Abad. “Il trattamento dello stato di male epilettico per mezzo del diazepam: Studio clinico e documentazione elettroencefalografica.” Minerva Medica 57 (1966): 373–381.
