The psychological world is a fascinating one to explore. Through memoirs written by writers who have truly experienced life-changing relationships with mental disorders, readers are able to walk through their minds with them. These are some of the best and most moving psychological memoirs published today.

5. "Unholy Ghost" edited by Nell Casey

This is a collection of essays on depression by 22 different writers. The abundance of different stories and varying perspectives makes for an interesting and enlightening look into depression and despair.

4. "The Quiet Room" by Lori Schiller with Amanda Bennett

Lori Schiller teams up with journalist Amanda Bennett to tell this story of a life troubled by schizophrenia. Schiller recounts her experience with suicide attempts, street wandering, hospitals, relapses, and eventually, survival.

3. "Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen

Made into a film in 1999, this is one of the most famous memoirs. Kaysen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and put into a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s. This memoir follows her own story of falling into fantasy worlds and ventures into the stories of other patients she met.

2. "Unbearable Lightness" by Portia de Rossi

This book is a painfully honest recount of de Rossi's struggles with anorexia and bulimia. She writes with brutal clarity of her life as young model and then as a closeted actress.

1. "An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison

The book is perhaps best described by it's Amazon page: "Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom—a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives."