Medical doctor Tamasin Knight has previously received psychiatric treatment and went on to write the practical guidebook Beyond Belief: Alternative Ways of Working with Delusions, Obsessions and Unusual Experiences . The book queries and rejects the usefulness of traditional psychopathological labels and treatments. It argues instead for accepting the individual’s own reality…
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This Way Madness Lies , by Mike Jay, explores the meaning of madness, or mental illness, through the prism of the institution that defined it: the asylum. Combining the perspectives of doctors and patients, artists, social commentators and reformers, it tells the story of…
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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman’s struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious…
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The publishers say: “This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over-prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers…
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Co-authored by Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward, the publisher writes: “What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people’s well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main objective? The Origins of…
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The publishers describe this book (2015) by Louis Cozolino as “the story of why psychotherapy actually works”. They continue: “That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does…
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Written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, this book (first published in 2009) highlights the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”. It shows that for each of eleven different health…
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This book is edited by Prof. Tania Luhrmann & Jocelyn Marrow, and published by the University of California Press (October 2016). The publishers say: “Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it…
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In this book (a 1964 abridged edition of a book published in 1961) Michel Foucault: “… examines the archaeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part…
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