Breakdown
A Personal Crisis and a Personal Dilemma
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Published:30th Jul '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This acclaimed account by author of the bestselling author of Irrationailty of his own manic depression remains unique in its honesty and perception. As an eminent psychologist who suffered a severe mental breaskdown. Stuart Sutherland was ideally placed to provide an original and insightful description of his illness and often bizarre consequences.
In the second part of Breakdown, Sutherland describes and assesses the various forms of therapy and drug treatments available to sufferers of manic depression and analyses the origins of mental illness. Essentail reading for anyone affected by or interested in mental illness.
'Incisive, unsentimental, whole unsparing, but full of humour and humanity (and often very funny), Breakdown remains one of the best accounts I know of a personal journey through manic depression. I think it will take its place among the modern classics of this literature.' Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9781905177202
Dimensions: 215mm x 136mm x 24mm
Weight: 408g
308 pages
3rd Revised edition