📚 Insanity

Books with insanity on their catalogue record, first published between 1789 and 1999, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject insanity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,110 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Mind That Found Itself	Clifford Whittingham Beers	1908	133
	Medical inquiries and observations	Benjamin Rush	1789	36
	A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity	Isaac Ray	1838	22
	The psychology of insanity	Bernard Hart	1912	18
	The pathology of mind	Henry Maudsley	1879	17
	Outlines of psychiatry	William A. White	1907	15
	Responsibility in mental disease	Henry Maudsley	1874	10
	Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen psychopathologie	Richard von Krafft-Ebing	1875	10
	The man of genius	Cesare Lombroso	1891	10
	Studies in Forensic Psychiatry	Bernard Glueck	1916	10
	Nursing mental diseases	Harriet Bailey	1920	10
	A text-book of psychiatry for students and practitioners	Henderson, David Kennedy Sir	1927	10
	The treatment of insanity	John M. (John Minson) Galt	1846	9
	Evil or ill?	Lawrie Reznek	1997	8
	Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind	Benjamin Rush	1812	7
	Law, liberty, and psychiatry	Thomas Stephen Szasz	1963	7
	Alone with the devil	Ronald Markman	1989	6
	Anglo-American insanity defence reform	Faye Boland	1999	6
	Sanity and insanity	Charles Arthur Mercier	1890	5
	Modern clinical psychiatry	Arthur P. Noyes	1934	5
	Psychiatric justice	Thomas Stephen Szasz	1965	5
	Legal Issues and Guidelines for Nurses Who Care for the Mentally Ill	Joyce Kemp Laben	1984	5
	Medical Evidence in Courts of Law	Daniel Clark	1879	4
	Heredity and eugenics in relation to insanity	Frederick Walker Mott	1912	4
	Psychopathology	Edward J. Kempf	1920	4
	The problem of mental disorder	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Psychiatric Investigations.	1934	4
	Receivership under the Mental health act, 1959	H. F. Compton	1960	4
	Aḥarayuto ha-pelilit shel ha-laḳui be-nafsho	Jacob Bazak	1961	4
	Crime and insanity in England	Walker, Nigel.	1967	4
	The insanity defense	Abraham S. Goldstein	1967	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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