What's a really good fiction book that deals with psychology?

Question

I absolutely love psychology and I was wondering what good fiction books are out there that have to do with it. Like, for example, Flowers for Algernon. I absolutely loved that book.

Answer 1

Here are some:

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg is about a teen girl who is schizophrenic and spends time in a mental hospital. It is based on a true story - the author's.

The same author also wrote In This Sign, about a deaf man and woman who fall in love and marry, and have a daughter.

Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld is about a teen girl who seems to be going mad and how her friends try to help her.

Stephen King is known for his horror novels, but I always felt that Cujo was more of a psychological novel than a horror story. It's about a loving family dog that gets rabies and goes mad from the rabies. It's very sad, also frightening, but there's nothing in it that couldn't really happen, like in most horror stories.

Answer 2

Most books are about people, so they are actually about psychology, so most any good book will do it.  How about the books by Charles Dickens, such as Oliver Twist (and A Christmas Carol!)?

Anyway, my favorites are like Flowers: science fiction. For example the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, or a lot of the books by Robert Heinlein, or "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke.

The websites below give a lot of good info and list the books by each author.

Answer 3

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

This is a fantastic story told from the point of view of a patient in a psychiatric hospital. The movie featured Jack Nicholson and is also quite good.