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According to the National Institute for Mental Health, over fifty-nine million adults and nearly a fifth of adolescents in the US have been diagnosed with some form of mental illness, with about 50 percent receiving treatment. But the explosion in diagnoses over the last ten years may be doing more harm than good: encouraging patients to define their identities in terms of their deficits, contributing to the overprescribing of pharmaceutical drugs, and saddling a generation with constricting labels that can linger long after symptoms have resolved.
Drawing on thirty years of medical experience, Dr. Gavin Francis, a general practitioner, delves with subtle nuance into the tangled history of psychiatry and the problems that he addresses daily in his patients' lives: mood disorders, trauma, anxiety, and addiction. Expertly reckoning with the historical treatment of mental illness and today's realities, Dr. Francis examines how mental health care has evolved—and how a system built on diagnosing illness and prescribing medication too often forces patients into diagnostic boxes, with labels that too often become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Including case studies and conversations with therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Dr. Francis takes a multifaceted approach to the constantly shifting landscape of mental health to argue that the mind, far from being something rigid and fragile, is in fact dynamic and adaptive, best treated with compassion, flexibility, and curiosity. The Unfragile Mind blends experience, history, and contemporary perspectives in a comprehensive assessment of how we can better understand—and navigate—common but often invisible illnesses.
Contents
Introduction: Adventures in Thinking, Feeling & Being
Part 1: Maps of the Mind
The Box of Delights
Constellations of the Mind
Physicians, Priests & Prophecy
Chemicals to Networks
Formative Experiences Interlude
Part 2: States of Mind
Living on Red Alert: On Anxiety, Anguish & Fear
The Worst Already Happened: On Trauma & Personality Disorders
A Fire Hose of Epiphanies: On Mania, Wonder & Awe
Tears Blue, & with a Wounded Heart: On Depression, Melancholia & Suicide
Privy to a Dream: On Psychosis, Delusions & Hallucinations
A Tender Place in the Mind: On Hurts, Scars & Addictions
The Many Dimensions of Being: On Neurodiversity, Autism & ADHD
Conclusion: Hope & the Unfragile Mind
