Breakdown by Stuart Sutherland
Reissue of Irrationality author and eminent psychologist Stuart Sutherland's classic account of his own manic depression, a candid but often humorous journey, combined with an analysis of the origins and treatments of mental illness.'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 depressionI think it will take its place among the modern classics of this literature.' Oliver Sacks
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905177202 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905177208 |
| Title | Breakdown |
| Author | Stuart Sutherland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pinter & Martin Ltd. |
| Year published | 2010-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
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