The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health by Ros

Description: The Maps We Carry by Rose Cartwright Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their minds bewildering beautiful complexities ALAIN DE BOTTONRadically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work NATHAN FILER FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their minds bewildering beautiful complexities ALAIN DE BOTTONRadically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work NATHAN FILER Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable?What if our intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection?Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. And there is still no biological test which can diagnose any mental health problem.So where are we going wrong?In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she began to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm.Part radical manifesto, part revealing memoir, The Maps We Carry provides a new path to understanding and re-evaluating our approaches to mental health. This is a book is for everyone who has questioned why they are the way they are. Author Biography Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter whose memoir, Pure, about her life with intrusive sexual thoughts, was adapted for Channel 4. Her writing about psychedelics, consciousness and mental health has been published in The Face, Vice and the Guardian. Rose is a writer on the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixins The Three Body Problem. Review An uncommonly valuable book which asks all the important questions of mental health and arrives at conclusions which are novel, kind, imaginative and useful. Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their minds bewildering beautiful complexities Alain de BottonIts rare to find a book on mental health with such clarity of intelligence and heart. Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work Nathan FilerReviews for Rose Cartwrights PURE:This book is written with such staggering honesty your jaw might literally drop at certain moments. This is a very welcome look at unwelcome thoughts and how minds can stage their own uprisings against us. There is pain here, but also a lot of humour and Rose writes with such dead-on frankness that you are gripped from the first to last page Matt HaigBold and darkly funny ES MagazineBright and funny. . . Pure is an enlightening read helping to highlight a form of mental illness that has been hushed up for so long Independent Promotional A radical new book on mental health from the acclaimed author of PURE Details ISBN0008591881 Author Rose Cartwright Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780008591885 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-04-11 Imprint The Borough Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2024-04-11 ISBN-10 0008591881 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780008591908 Pages 384 Subtitle Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health NZ Release Date 2024-07-30 AU Release Date 2024-07-30 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 616.89 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159209919;

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