Making mental illness understandable for everyone
Have you ever thought you were going mad? Ever questioned your sanity? Hated yourself so much that you wanted to end it all? Felt your life crippled by panic? Lost control over your own mind?
Going Mad? is a ground-breaking book that addresses all your concerns about mental illness and associated stigmas. It questions the mainstream theories about mental illness in an easy-to-read and accessible style, instead placing consciousness, thoughts, emotions and experiences as the creators of psychological distress and dis-ease states.
Experienced psychologists Dr Michael Corry and Dr Áine Tubridy demystify psychiatric labels, presenting mental illness as an understandable response to traumatic or difficult life situations.
They take the novel approach of using case studies drawn from their clinical experience combined with a fictional panel of experts drawn from fields such as psychotherapy, homeopathy, psychiatry and spiritual healing in order to describe what happens — and what doesn't — in states such as schizophrenia, mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and panic attacks.
Their aim is to make madness understandable and inseparable from the experience of being human. This vital view firmly puts the lifeforce and soul back into the healing process, where it belongs.