Description:
A timely, layered approach to the overdiagnosis epidemic in our mental health climate--from a doctor and internationally acclaimed author--that makes the case for applying compassion and curiosity rather than strict labels
"I thought Gavin Francis couldn't get any better, but I was wrong. This is his best and most important book."? Bill Bryson, New York Times-bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body
Brief description: Gavin Francis, MD, is a multi-award-winning author and GP who has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, and medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey. He is the author of Sunday Times bestsellers Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change, and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, and has been short-listed for such awards as the Saltire Literary Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, Costa Book of the Year, and the Ondaatje Prize. His writing also appears in TheWall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Review Quotes: Dr. Gavin Francis writes with empathy, fluency, and elegance about one of the most important medical topics of our times. This is a book to change lives--and save them.--Sir Ian Rankin, New York Times-bestselling author