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