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Losing Our Minds

Losing Our Minds

What Mental Illness Really Is - and What It Isn't

by Lucy Foulkes
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/09/2022

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A vital corrective and accessible guide to the science of mental illness

Losing Our Minds provides an accessible distillation and empowering guide to the latest science of mental illness, overturning the notion that we are experiencing an 'epidemic' of mental illness, especially among young people.

Much progress has been made in recent years to promote awareness and openness around mental illness. But academic psychologist Dr Lucy Foulkes argues that a wider understanding of what actually constitutes mental illness is still lacking. As a result, psychiatric terminology is widely overused and misapplied, and the distinction between clinical conditions that require medical treatment - such as depression and anxiety disorders - as opposed to the normal challenges of human experience - such as sadness, stress and anxiety - are being lost. Confusion arises because such distinctions are often hard to make but understanding and preserving them is essential if we are properly to care for those who are ill, equip ourselves to cope with life's unavoidable mental challenges and provide the right kind of support that each demands.

Drawing on her expert understanding of the scientific literature as well as personal experience, Losing Our Minds will present a comprehensive and sympathetic overview of the state of our current knowledge about the causes and nature of the most prevalent mental illnesses, how and when they develop, and the effectiveness of current treatments. It will also make clear what remains unknown, setting the record straight about this often controversial, misunderstood and politicised subject.

ISBN:
9781529113372
9781529113372
Category:
Medicolegal issues
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x15mm
Weight:
0.17kg

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
UTA FRITH, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Losing Our Minds communicates complex research findings on mental illness with unusual clarity and compassion, and without oversimplifying or shying away from the difficult questions. Everyone who either lives with or knows someone with mental illness should read it. In other words, everyone should read it
ESSI VIDING, PROFESSOR OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

This wonderful book offers an amazingly readable and cutting-edge scientific account of mental illness and its relation to the stresses many young adults experience as well as the language we use to talk about ourselves
MATTHEW BROOME, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

In this captivating book, Lucy Foulkes writes exquisitely well about this complex subject, from societal and cultural norms to common misunderstandings and the most recent evidence about what causes mental illness and how to treat it. Engaging and lucid, her book illuminates a subject relevant to all of us SARAH-JAYNE
BLAKEMORE, AUTHOR OF INVENTING OURSELVES, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Lucy Foulkes

Dr Lucy Foulkes was a lecturer in psychology at the University of York from 2018 until 2020, when became an associate editor and staff writer at Aeon.

She has written for the Guardian and The Conversation, has appeared in BBC television programmes about mental illness and hosted a month long residency at the Science Museum. Losing Our Minds is her first book.

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