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paulataua's review against another edition
4.0
Well worth reading for the fantastic revelatory interviews and the telling critiques of the DMS. Those critiques should be enough to make us suspicious about the whole validity of psychiatry. Puzzling, however, is the fact that the author discloses so much and yet still seems to support the system and the practice. He seems comfortable with electroconvulsive therapy (brain toasting) and the use of medications (most often mind straitjackets) without consent. Quite rightly he puts ‘so called’ in inverted commas before schizophrenia, but is quite happy to leave ‘cure’ and ‘got better’ without that questioning punctuation. I , of course, want to add those marks. Read it and take all the wonderful things it has to offer, but do so critically. There is something not quite right about what is being served.
lottie_morgan's review against another edition
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4.0
everything_was_beautiful's review
challenging
dark
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informative
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5.0
tiarnaigh's review against another edition
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dark
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5.0
rebeccaquinton's review against another edition
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4.5
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Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcoholism, Death, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Drug use, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization
carolineselina's review against another edition
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4.5
vgk's review
5.0
This book is about so much more than schizophrenia. It asks us to think about what 'madness' is, what 'normal' is, what 'treatment' is, where the boundaries are, ultimately what it is to be human, and what is involved in helping humans who are suffering. This is a wonderful, wonderful book.