Her books include:
*''Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities'' (catalog for exhibit ''The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past'', Sigmund Freud Museum, 1989)
*''Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914'' (with Nancy Tomes, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Cornell University Press, 1994).
*''Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind'' (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)
*''Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History'' (Princeton University Press, 2016)
*''Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual'', revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)