georgeisreading's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
A poignant book that makes you rethink what you know about mental health. Written very well and easy to digest; it’s both heartbreaking and hopeful; asking important questions. I’d definitely recommend this book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Suicide
katemeadow's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
paulataua's review
4.0
Well worth reading for the fantastic revelatory interviews and the telling critiques of the DMS. Those critiques should be enough to make us suspicious about the whole validity of psychiatry. Puzzling, however, is the fact that the author discloses so much and yet still seems to support the system and the practice. He seems comfortable with electroconvulsive therapy (brain toasting) and the use of medications (most often mind straitjackets) without consent. Quite rightly he puts ‘so called’ in inverted commas before schizophrenia, but is quite happy to leave ‘cure’ and ‘got better’ without that questioning punctuation. I , of course, want to add those marks. Read it and take all the wonderful things it has to offer, but do so critically. There is something not quite right about what is being served.
everything_was_beautiful's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
rebeccaquinton's review
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcoholism, Death, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Drug use, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization