Finding True North
The Healing Power of Place
Published on 29. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-913207-34-2 (ISBN)
Description
Finding True North is a wise and powerful memoir about recovery and the healing power of place. An award-winning Professor of Psychiatry, Linda Gask writes with startling honesty about her struggles with depression and anxiety. In this unvarnished account as both patient and physician she describes her search for her 'right' place in the world.
Reviews / Votes
An illuminating and enlightening book, beautifully illustrating the importance of place on our mental and physical wellbeing. Finding True North reminds me why I would rather consult a physician who at times struggles herself, rather than one who has remained above the fray. Quietly moving... a timely reminder of the stabilising effects of attachment to place. Linda Gask's writing and wisdom about depression are like no one else's and I turn to it time and time again to feel the comforting chime of shared experience. Intriguing, poignant and highly readable. This is recovery not as a political stick with which to beat the disenfranchised, but self-help and self-care that is truly transformative. Finding True North is beautifully written... It is powerful and moving and quite exceptional. Kate Lovett, Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Sensitive, thoughtful and informed. Insightful study of solitude, mental health and geography... This book feels like a place of refuge in itself, and I highly recommend it. * Morning Star *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913207-34-2 (9781913207342)
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E-Book
04/2021
Sandstone Press Ltd
€3.59
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Person
Linda Gask trained in Medicine in Edinburgh and is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Having worked as a consultant psychiatrist for many years she is now retired and lives on Orkney. She maintains a popular mental health blog, Patching the Soul (lindagask.com), and contributes to Twitter as a mental health influencer. She is the author of The Other Side of Silence (2015), which was featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and serialised in the Times Magazine. In 2017 she was awarded the prestigious President's Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.