No Such Thing as Normal

Psychiatry has been a lifeline for many, providing essential tools and interventions, but it is not the whole story. By highlighting alternative approaches and perspectives, this book challenges us to think more broadly about the complexities of mental health and about how we can truly support people at their most vulnerable moments with a more holistic understanding of wellbeing and distress -- Sarah Hughes, CEO of Mind
Adroitly skewers psychiatry's tendency to pathologise behaviours considered "abnormal". A stimulating and timely primer on the social model of mental health -- Daniel Tammet, author of NINE MINDS
A rallying cry for an approach to mental health that is informed by the circumstances, experiences, and diversity of those of us who struggle. I have never read a clearer case for the importance of social and systemic approaches to psychiatric distress -- Dr Emma Byrne, author of SWEARING IS GOOD FOR YOU
Bigg meticulously documents how pervasive and harmful psychiatry's biomedical vision continues to be, while guiding us toward more compassionate responses to human suffering -- Professor Justin Garson, author of MADNESS and THE MADNESS PILL
From the feral femininity of hysterical women to the eugenic thinking and stereotyping that shapes Schizophrenia into a 'Black disease', Bigg peels away psychiatry's veneer. An absolutely fascinating book -- Dr Rianna Walcott, co-editor of THE COLOUR OF MADNESS
A really much needed contribution -- Nick Dearden, author of PHARMANOMICS
Bigg challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about mental health, and shows how a radically new approach to "normality" is needed -- Emma Szewczak, author of THE STITCH UP
A shocking and powerful critique, this is essential reading for everyone interested in mental health, how the mind works, and how psychiatry could become a force for social change. -- Dr Helen King, author of IMMACULATE FORMS
A confronting and thought-provoking insight into the shortcomings of psychiatric medicine, balanced with a hopeful and patient-centred vision for reform -- Sarah Graham, author of REBEL BODIES
A timely, incisive, and rigorous critique of modern psychiatry - Bigg shows how so-called treatments for mental health disorders are anything but -- Dr Andrzej Harris, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge
Amazingly well done and an insightful read - a must have if you want to look past what is defined as "normal" -- Dr Nighat Arif, author of THE KNOWLEDGE
Praise for This Won't Hurt: 'A vital subject that needs to be discussed -- Katy Hessel
A vital subject that needs to be discussed -- Katy Hessel
Brilliant...There is so much to unlearn, there is so much that also follows in terms of how medicine could support - rather than fail - half the world's population -- Helen Pankhurst
A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms * Irish Times *
If you get a chance to read this - Do! An eye-opening brilliant work of passion -- Naga Munchetty