Books like The minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes

Mitch Albom’s memoir follows his weekly visits to former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz as Schwartz confronts terminal ALS, exploring life, death, and personal growth through their poignant teacher‑student bond.

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

A true account of Sybil Dorsett, who lived with 16 distinct personalities following childhood abuse and adult blackouts, shaping one of the most cited cases in psychoanalytic history.

Truddi Chase’s memoir recounts her therapy journey uncovering 92 distinct personalities, detailing her experiences with child sexual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, and her path to recovery.

Ann Rule’s true‑crime biography exposes the chilling rise of serial killer Ted Bundy and the devastating realization she faced when she discovered the killer was her friend.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

After witnessing a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park, 12‑year‑old runaway Billy Straight must evade a serial killer while LAPD detective Petra Connor races to protect him and solve the mystery before the hunt ends in tragedy.

Joan Frances Casey’s memoir reveals how a psychotic episode and subsequent therapy uncover her struggle with Multiple Personality Disorder, as she confronts a hidden history of abuse that threatens her artistic identity.