Selected Works

Nonfiction/Psychology
A whole new way of understanding mental illness, based on patients’ own experiences
True story of the maverick therapist who inspired I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Interviews, Articles & Reviews

Interviews


This is a PDF file. The Sun Interview (7.6MB)
"The Voices Inside their Heads: Gail Hornstein's Approach to Understanding Madness," (The Sun Magazine, July 2011)
This is a PDF file. "Letters to the Editor and Gail Hornstein's response to Sun interview." (274.0KB)
(The Sun Magazine, October 2011)
"Conversations with Gail Hornstein," The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, UK,

"Academic Minute with Dr. Gail Hornstein," WAMC Northeast Public Radio, December 30, 2010

This is a PDF file. "A new Hearing Voices book: An interview with the author, Gail Hornstein," Hearing Voices Network, 2010 (1.2MB)
"Madness Radio: Meanings of Madness interview with Gail Hornstein," Madness Radio: Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health, November 3, 2010

"Interview with BBC World Service 'Witness' program on the history of psychiatric asylums," BBC Radio, October 2010

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

This is a PDF file. The Meanings of Madness: Gail Hornstein speaks about her new book," The Women's Times, July, 2009 (303.2KB)
This is a MP3 file. "All in the Mind," Interview with BBC Radio, June 23, 2009 (9.8MB)
This is a PDF file. "A conversation with...Psychology Professor Gail A. Hornstein: Looking beyond medicine to treat mental illness," Hampshire Gazette, May 19, 2009 (5.9MB)
NPR "Writer's Voice" Podcast Interview
May 18, 2009

Podcast interview for PsychJourney with Deborah Harper, April 25, 2009

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

This is a MP3 file. WFCR Interview Part I (8.5MB)
This is a MP3 file. WFCR Interview Part II (8.5MB)
"Brainstorms: A Different Way of Thinking," Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly, Fall 2008

Articles


This is a PDF file. "Making the Agony Visible," (2.9MB)
Gail Hornstein's review of Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me by Bobby Baker (with Dora Whittuck), Women's Review of Books, Vol. 28, Issue 3, May/June 2011.
This is a PDF file. "Practice sharing: Teaching mental health using first-person accounts of madness" The Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Newsletter, Issue 57, September 2010 (1.0MB)
This is a PDF file. "Impossible Puzzle," Mental Health Practice, (14) (1), July 2010 (1.4MB)
This is a PDF file. "Hearing Voices: Mount Holyoke Professor Gail Hornstein Offers New Model for Understanding Mental Illness," The Montague Reporter, January 7, 2010 (297.3KB)
"Prune That Prose: Learning to Write for Readers Beyond Academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2009

This is a PDF file. "Heeding Plans Of Violence: Perpetrators Don't Just Snap," The Hartford Courant, courant.com Article Collections, August 16, 2009 (26.9KB)
This is a PDF file. "Author's talk to explore mental illness," Springfield Republican, May 6, 2009 (1.8MB)
This is a PDF file. "Who Owns the Mind?" Openmind (157), May/June 2009 (179.0KB)
"Hornstein Publishes New Book on Mental Illness," Mount Holyoke College News, March 16, 2009

"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

This is a PDF file. "Narratives of Madness, as Told from Within," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 25, 2002. (38.7KB)
"Hornstein to Read from New Biography November 30," College Street Journal, November 17, 2000

"Psychologist Hornstein Urges Therapists and Lay People to Listen to the Mentally Ill,", College Street Journal, March 7, 1997

Reviews


This is a PDF file. "Book Review: Agnes's Jacket" The Asylum, Summer 2011, 18 (2). (205.6KB)
Review by Eleanor Longden.
This is a PDF file. "Book Review: Agnes's Jacket" PsycCRITIQUES, Vol.54 (44) (114.4KB)
This is a PDF file. "Book Review: Agnes's Jacket" Journal of American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 2010, 38:551-552 (1.3MB)
This is a PDF file. "Book Review: Agnes's Jacket" Disability and Society Review, 2010 (68.1KB)
"Experts seek to learn from madness," The Washington Times, November 11, 2009

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

"Defining Madness: Examining Agnes's Jacket and Alias Grace," Psychology Today, September 9, 2009