Breakdown

A Personal Crisis and a Personal Dilemma

By: Stuart Sutherland

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Paperback | 29 August 2013 | Edition Number 3

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308 Pages

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21.6 x 13.7 x 2.2

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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.

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'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

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Non-Fiction Psychology Abnormal Psychology Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with / Advice about Illness & Specific Health Conditions Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Psychiatry

Clinical Psychology

Manic-depression: a personal account	p. 1
Onset	p. 3
Background	p. 10
Psychoanalysis	p. 17
The hospital	p. 26
Treatment	p. 41
Recovery	p. 51
Aftermath	p. 57
Sequel	p. 71
Postscript	p. 83
Mental illness: its nature, origins and treatment	p. 87
Who's who	p. 89
The nature of mental illness	p. 99
Diagnosis	p. 109
The origins of mental illness	p. 117
Freudian theory and practice	p. 131
Evaluation of Freud	p. 139
The Freudian cult	p. 143
The wars between the analysts	p. 152
Psychotherapeutic sects	p. 159
Group therapy	p. 170
The wilder shores of therapy	p. 179
Behaviour therapy	p. 186
Cognitive therapies	p. 198
Psychotherapy assessed	p. 207
Manipulating the brain	p. 217
The use of drugs	p. 226
How drugs work	p. 237
What goes wrong	p. 245
Therapeutic folly	p. 250
Ethics	p. 261
Choice of treatment	p. 275
Further reading	p. 279
Notes	p. 281
Glossary	p. 297
Name index to Part II	p. 301
Subject index to Part II	p. 303
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