ISBN 978-1-78504-220-1, £9.99, Dr Gabor Maté, Vermilion
If there was ever a book capable of gauging a practitioner’s limits of ability, tolerance or appetite to partake in a client’s struggle then Hungry Ghosts is it. Continue reading
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Growing Pains: Making Sense of Childhood – A Psychiatrist’s Story
ISBN 978-1-473643-26-0, £18.99, Dr Mike Shooter, Hodder & Stoughton
Psychiatry has a murky and deleterious past. One need only look inside James Davies’s 2013 classic Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good Continue reading
Psychological Therapies for Survivors of Torture
ISBN 978-1-910919-33-0, £24.99, Edited by Jude Boyles, PCCS Books Ltd
Seven years ago, in the autumn of 2011, I made a speculative phone call to a local table tennis club secretary in the hope of getting fit and using some of my childhood skills competitively. Continue reading
Help, I Need Somebody 