What does it mean to be “normal”? In a world shaped by diverse experiences, abilities, and perspectives, the very idea of normalcy is constantly evolving. As part of Disability Awareness Week, this book exhibition is co-hosted by DKU Library, the Student Accessibility Services Office, and the Book Club, inviting you to rethink conventional narratives and celebrate the strength found in diversity.
Visit the New Book Reading area on the first floor, near the east entrance! Through these carefully selected books, we explore stories of resilience, mental health, neurodiversity, disability rights, and personal empowerment. From insightful memoirs to groundbreaking research, these works challenge stereotypes, broaden our perspectives, and highlight the richness of human experiences.
* Please remember to borrow the books first before you take them out of the library. Some of the following books have been specially presented by our student book club members, please read them inside the Library. *
Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
另一种疯狂：精神疾病的污名与希望之旅
Author: 斯蒂芬·欣肖
Call Number: RC438.6 .H58 A3 2025
在当今社会，精神健康问题依然遭受着不同程度的误解，这往往会导致精神疾病患者基本权利的丧失。本书运用感人至深的家庭叙事法，穿插了21世纪的美国乃至世界如何看待精神健康状况的惊人事实，大声疾呼消除对精神疾病的污名。
《另一种疯狂》用最真实的声音，叙述了在父亲患精神疾病的秘密及其带来的压力交织的家庭中，作者那令人心痛的成长故事，字里行间直击人心。作者以无比真诚和直率的笔调，让读者见证他从一个恐惧的孩子成长为坚定的倡导者和治疗者的历程：既要面对疾病本身，又要面对精神疾病的污名。污名是另一种形式的疯狂，其后果要比精神疾病本身严重得多。
English version available online: https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE99119710521308501
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Author: Emily Ladau
Call Number: HV3011 .L33 2021
People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. What are the appropriate ways to think, talk, and ask about disability? Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Author: Alice Wong
Call Number: HV1552.3 .D572 2020
The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life’s ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy.
The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things
Author: Jenny Lawson
Call Number: PN4874 .L285 A3 2015
In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:
“I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might never understand. And that’s what Furiously Happy is all about.”
蛤蟆先生去看心理医生
Author: 罗伯特·戴博德
Call Number: BF637 .C6 D37127 2020
这并不是一本写给孩子看的书，而是一本非常有深度的心理疗愈读物。出版20多年来，已成为英国国民级心理咨询入门书。它基于TA沟通分析心理学的理论，讲述了一个抑郁症病人通过十次心理咨询，终于找回快乐和自信的全过程。在书中，可以看到心理咨询的倾听、共情、沟通技巧，也可以看到一个标准的心理咨询流程的模板。读者犹如亲临现场，体验心理咨询的每一个细节，见证疗愈和改变的发生。
在这本书里，作者借由蛤蟆和心理咨询师苍鹭的互动，探索了蛤蟆自卑、软弱、爱炫耀的个性与抑郁的情绪究竟来源于何处，让读者看到童年经历对人格的深刻影响，以及如何才能在心理上真正长大成人，独立、自信、充满希望地生活。
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Author: Steve Silberman
Call Number: RC553.A88 S54 2015
What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
Going back to the earliest days of autism research, Silberman offers a gripping narrative of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, the research pioneers who defined the scope of autism in profoundly different ways; he then goes on to explore the game-changing concept of neurodiversity. NeuroTribes considers the idea that neurological differences such as autism, dyslexia, and ADHD are not errors of nature or products of the toxic modern world, but the result of natural variations in the human genome. This groundbreaking book will reshape our understanding of the history, meaning, function, and implications of neurodiversity in our world.
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story
Author: Debbie Tung
Presented by Book Club
This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung’s experience as an introvert in an extrovert’s world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or dipped into at one’s leisure, the book spans three years of Debbie’s life, from the end of college to the present day. In these early years of adulthood, Debbie slowly but finally discovers there is a name for her lifelong need to be alone: she’s an introvert.
Ultimately, Quiet Girl sends a positive, pro-introvert message: our heroine learns to embrace her introversion and finds ways to thrive in the world while fulfilling her need for quiet.
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Author: Barry M. Prizant, Tom Fields-Meyer
Call Number: RJ506.A9 P75 2022
Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of “autistic” symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, communication problems, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now, this updated and expanded edition of Dr. Barry M. Prizant’s Uniquely Human tackles new language such as shifting from “person-first language” to “identity-first language,” diversity of identity in the autism sphere, and the future of autistic advocacy by amplifying the voices of autistic and neurodivergent individuals.
心理医生的故事盒子
Author: 豪尔赫·布卡伊
Call Number: PQ7798.12 .U188 D45127 2022
德米安是个焦虑而迷茫的年轻人，对自己和世界充满了好奇，又时常无法面对生活中的各种问题，包括学业、爱情、人际关系等。他不断质疑自己，也迫切地希望了解自己。于是，他找到了完形学派的心理治疗师豪尔赫。豪尔赫的治疗风格十分独特：每次见面，他都会给德米安讲一个故事。从古代到现代，从宫廷到民间，这些看似简单却蕴含着丰富哲理的故事，解答了年轻人的各种疑惑，减轻了他的焦躁和恐惧，让他感到自己的人生又重新开始了。
自卑与超越
Author: 阿尔弗雷德·阿德勒
Call Number: BF175 .A39127 2020
《自卑与超越》是心理学大师阿尔弗雷德·阿德勒的代表作，被誉为“每个人都应该读的心理学”。这是这本通俗易懂、透彻实用的小书，使阿德勒成为享誉世界的心理学家。
本书娓娓道出：为什么我们每个人都会自卑？为什么幸运的人一生都被童年治愈，不幸的人一生都在治愈童年？为什么看似傲娇自负的人，十有八九更自卑？我们怎样和自卑相处？怎样超越自卑提升自我？
翻开本书，带您认清自卑的本质，成为内心强大的自己，收获直面一切问题和困难的智慧，从自卑走向卓越。
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