Selected Works

Nonfiction/Psychology
Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness
A whole new way of understanding mental illness, based on patients’ own experiences
To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
True story of the maverick therapist who inspired I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Articles & Interviews

"Experts seek to learn from madness," The Washington Times, November 11, 2009

"Book Review: Agnes's Jacket,"Equilibrium Magazine Online, Page 9, Autumn 2009

"The Pros and Cons of Academic Writing,"The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia), September 29, 2009


"Prune That Prose: Learning to write for readers beyond academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2009



Two-part interview on NPR-affiliate WFCR (Amherst, MA)
Date: April 9-10, 2009
Please use the links below to hear the interview.

"Hornstein Publishes New Book on Mental Illness," Mount Holyoke College News, March 16, 2009

"Brainstorms: A Different Way of Thinking," Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly, Fall 2008

"MHC's Hornstein on Too Much Happiness," Vancouver Sun and Canada.com, February 14, 2008

"Gail Hornstein on Bipolar Disorder in Children," Mount Holyoke College Office of Communications, September 24, 2007

"Pardoning WWI's "Shell-shock" Sufferers," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2006

"Terror and Cowardice," Newsday, October 22, 2006

"Hornstein at Broadside Bookshop," Mount Holyoke College Office of Communications, August 10, 2006

"Film Series Offers New Perspective on Mental Illness," College Street Journal, December 12, 2003

"Hornstein to Read from New Biography November 30," College Street Journal, November 17, 2000




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