
Breakdown
A Personal Crisis and a Personal Dilemma
Stuart Sutherland(Author)
Pinter & Martin Ltd. (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
308 pages
978-1-905177-20-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 SacksMore details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Montag & Martin Limited
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905177-20-2 (9781905177202)
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Person
Stuart Sutherland, born in 1928, was Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex where he founded the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology. A prolific columnist and contributor to the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph, and is best known for his iconoclastic book Irrationality, which was first published in 1992, and Breakdown, his candid and movingly personal account of his manic depression.
He died of a heart attack in 1998.
He died of a heart attack in 1998.
Content
1 Manic-depression: a personal account; 2 Mental illness: its nature, origins and treatment