0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness

Not currently available

Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds (Hardcover) Loot Price: R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
You Save: R80 (16%)
Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds (Hardcover): A K Benjamin

Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds (Hardcover)

A K Benjamin

 (1 rating, sign in to rate)
List price R516 Loot Price R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 You Save R80 (16%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian 'I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness' Stephen Fry 'Stunning: clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest' Olivia Laing A consulting room with two people in it. One of them is talking, the other is listening. Both of them need help. Throughout his life, A K Benjamin has found himself drawn to extreme behaviour - as a screenwriter, a contemplative monk, a counsellor for addicts, a support-worker for gang-members and ultimately as a clinical neuropsychologist. His book begins as a series of superbly realised clinical encounters with anonymised patients, some recently traumatised, some on the brink of mental collapse, others already in freefall. But with each encounter, it becomes increasingly and disturbingly apparent that what we are reading is not really about the patients at all: it is about the author's own fevered descent into mental illness and mania as he confronts his traumatic past. Layered with twists and revelations, Let Me Not Be Mad challenges the boundary between fact and fiction to provide a thrilling drama of self-diagnosis: a hall of mirrors blazing with energy, intensity, humour and emotion. And though shockingly personal, it also reveals something deep and dark in western culture that is driving millions of us to distraction and collapse.

General

Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2019
Authors: A K Benjamin
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-542-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-84792-542-1
Barcode: 9781847925428

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners