Books about therapy but written by clients, not therapists?

TL;DR: I'm looking for insider lit about psychotherapy (and/or the experience of life with mental health difficulties). It must be written by clients as clients: things that genuinely own the experience from the inside. The more vivid and powerful the better.

Longer version: I want to find exemplars of psychotherapy/mental health literature (or other art) that are alive with the real reality of what they address, produced by those who experience what they are expressing from an insider perspective, as differentiated from even the most understanding and insightful of attempts at doing the same written by or from the pov of anyone else.

It might be an account of a person's experience of therapy (whether positive or negative). Or giving expression to an experience of their own life that includes mental illness and/or therapy. By extension, living without therapy, or even in reaction against it, is also a good, relevant topic.

Perhaps the most famous example is The Bell Jar. I learned more about how to be with anguished depression and suicidality from that than anything else. That's the real point of my question. These things give insight for those who haven't suffered similarly and the comfort of companionship for those who have.

An obscure but excellent example of the type of thing I am looking for is Sarah Ferguson's A Guard Within, which reads like a kaleidoscopic outpouring of undisguised neuroses as she reacts to her analyst's death by writing about her therapy (including their "summer romance"); it is brilliantly and evocatively written beyond the reach of any text book or formal research study. I want more like that. Or even just sources to follow up who were/are interested in this type of output: where would I find the richest seams of this kind of thing?

I don't want to *completely* exclude accounts of therapy by therapists (who can be as human as anyone else, but they must be writing candidly as themselves about their own experiences) but I *do exclude* anything written by or from the pov of a practitioner, or case studies, or anything written by anyone simply imagining a client pov, or posing with a supposed client voice. I love things like Yalom's short stories about therapy like Love's Executioner, or Axeline's Dibs: In Search of Self, but those are therapists writing what they thought clients experienced.

For now I am excluding things like The White Hotel, or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as they are fiction, no matter how powerful. BUT – I'm not quite excluding all fiction: sometimes it is just a literary form taken to give expression to just the kind of experience of mental health I want to include (would some Dostoevsky qualify as insider mental health literature? (IMHO it would)) but not mere stories about mental health or that use therapy or mental health as a setting. Agatha Christie wrote about crime but gave us almost no insight into the real experience of real crimes, which she knew very little about, and I don't want the psych equivalent of that. Nothing against it: it's just different.

I also want to include as many genres as possible (so I include Kirkegaard or Frankl from philosophy, for example) and certainly include autobiography. I'd be interested in formal research (if it is led by clients as clients, not anything led by researchers or therapy practitioners "giving voice to clients" or the like) but that's a different thing perhaps so I'll take it elsewhere.

Thanks for reading all that. Any suggestions? Sincere TIA

Also: this sub is brilliant but do you know of others that would be interested in this?