What mental illness really is (and what it isn't)

By:

Foulkes, Lucy

Publication details: London : Vintage, 2022Description: vii, 232pISBN:

9781529113372

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 75.

Contents:

Introduction: collateral damage -- Rising rates -- On a continuum -- Moving goalposts -- Biology -- Environment -- Adolescence -- Social media -- Rethinking the crisis -- Language matters -- Expert help -- Helping each other and ourselves.

Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	WM 75 FOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024219

Originally published as "Losing Our Minds". London : The Bodley Head, 2021.

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.

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