What mental illness really is (and what it isn't)
Foulkes, Lucy
What mental illness really is (and what it isn't) - London : Vintage, 2022 - vii, 232p.
Originally published as "Losing Our Minds". London : The Bodley Head, 2021.
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.
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.
9781529113372
Mental disorders
Mental health
WM 75.
What mental illness really is (and what it isn't) - London : Vintage, 2022 - vii, 232p.
Originally published as "Losing Our Minds". London : The Bodley Head, 2021.
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.
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.
9781529113372
Mental disorders
Mental health
WM 75.