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Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds (Paperback)
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Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds (Paperback)
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Loot Price R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
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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. 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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