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What We Fear Most: A Psychiatrist’s Journey to the Heart of Madness / BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

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I've read so many books by therapists, psychologists, sociologists, you name it. But I had never read one by a psychiatrist before. Still, there's plenty of mental illness in my family (they call it 'mental health' these days when they mean illness) so I thought it was about time. That being said, I otherwise enjoyed this book and thought it was a powerful depiction of mental health and how and why it fails to flourish. There are lots of references to drug abuse, childhood trauma and addictions that seem to tie many of the offender stories closely together. Wow! What a book! I took my time to read (study) this book because I wanted to get into the heart of the message. I wanted to understand and view Mental Illness through the eyes of the psychiatrist and through the eyes of an everyday citizen. The stories here, expertly written by Dr. Ben Cave, are insightful and eye-opening. Not to talk of the free Medical, Psychiatry and Law classes included. LOL!

A beautifully balanced and compassionately written memoir... This is a fascinating account of a fascinating journey' - Dr Richard Shepherdthe most mesmerising, haunting and seductive book I have read in years... I have no doubt it will take it's place atop the new wave of literary, medical professionals.' - Amol Rajan, journalist and media editor Looking at the cover art, I thought this book would have a much more serious tone than it did. Forensic psychiatry is a mysterious area of medicine at the best of times, so I was intrigued to learn about some real patient stories and how the system works to support them. Most of all, I had to stop (quite often) and think hard. In fact, I'm still thinking about this book, and it's months since I finished it. This book was given to me by a family friend on the 8th of July, and by morning of the 10th, I had finished reading. I just couldn’t put it down. Now, I’m planning to give this book to everyone this Christmas - it is just so good! Priory consultant Dr Humphrey Needham-Bennett’s autobiography about life in forensic psychiatry has been chosen by BBC Radio 4 as its Book of the Week.

A beautifully balanced and compassionately written memoir… This is a fascinating account of a fascinating journey’– Dr Richard Shepherd So it was good for me to read this book. There's plenty of mental illness in the author and his friends too. He is beautifully human. I understood some things from a perspective I haven't inhabited before. He made me laugh about some situations that I thought I would never in a million years find funny, and he did that with gentle, intelligent care. a beautifully balanced and compassionately written memoir… This is a fascinating account of a fascinating journey’– Dr Richard ShepherdYou can’t treat a prisoner under the Mental Health Act while they are still in prison. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider this. There is so much mental illness in prisons, we’re never realistically going to get everyone treated in hospitals. We need medicine and therapy in our prisons.” This book was written so beautifully and skillfully that I actually thought to myself “this might be a ghost writer because how can a psychiatrist be this talented of an author!?” As a mental health practitioner and aspiring clinical psychologist, I have read a substantial amount of mental health literature and What We Fear Most has now topped my list of recommended readings. It is deeply profound, enthralling, vulnerable and touching, whilst also being highly educational, funny, and reflective.

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