Published autobiographies written by individuals suffering from mental disorders can enrich abnormal psychology courses by complementing the outside-looking-in perspective of textbooks with an insider perspective. Autobiographies can serve as outside readings, lecture examples, primary texts for discussion sections, extra-credit assignments, and source books for topical seminars. Students favorably rated the pedagogical value of such autobiographies in 3 separate evaluations. We present a condensed autobiography review form and a Web site address for an annotated list of autobiographies.
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