What Mental Illness Really Is… (and what it isn’t)
- Author Lucy Foulkes
- Narrator Lucy Foulkes
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 21 April 2022
- Run Time 7 hours and 39 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Coping with anxiety and phobias, Coping with depression and other mood disorders, Coping with mental health issues, Health systems and services, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Impact of science and technology on society, Popular psychology, Psychology.
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'A must-read... Fascinating' JO BRAND
We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why.
How do mental health problems arise?
How do we distinguish between the 'normal' challenges of modern life and actual illness?
Is society really experiencing a new mental health crisis?
In this urgently needed book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes investigates what we know about mental illness - and shines a light on what we don't. It offers a profound new approach to how we think, talk and help when it comes to mental health.
(Previously published in 2021 under the title Losing Our Minds.)
'Captivating...engaging and lucid' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
'Clear-headed, compassionate and, ultimately, optimistic' Mark Haddon
'Thorough, wise...much needed' Mark Rice-Oxley
© Lucy Foulkes 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
This wonderful book offers an amazingly readable and cutting-edge scientific account of mental illness
Beautifully written and compassionate… This book is needed urgently so that we can examine fears of a tsunami of mental health problems… Anyone touched by such problems will find much helpful practical advice
A guide to the start of the art in the science of mental illness…lucidly written and builds its case with a winning combination of care and concision… This impressive book is a great starting point for well-informed conversations on the issue
Everyone who either lives with or knows someone with mental illness should read it. In other words, everyone should read it
This beautifully written and compassionate account, backed by state-of-the-art scientific evidence, delivers an important message: there is far more variation in the state of our mental health and far more complexity in the diagnosis of mental illness than we tend to believe. This book is needed urgently so that we can examine fears of a tsunami of mental health problems, especially in the light of the current pandemic. Anyone touched by such problems will find much helpful practical advice
| Author | Lucy Foulkes |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Lucy Foulkes |
| Duration | 7 hours and 39 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529199246 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Coping with anxiety and phobias, Coping with depression and other mood disorders, Coping with mental health issues, Health systems and services, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Impact of science and technology on society, Popular psychology, Psychology |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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