'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage, Book Shamblespodcast This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand the psychology and the science behind what makes them them!
Structured around a calendar year, consultant clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox discusses the problems we all face, and shows how ideas from the therapy room can help make life better even when we don't feel we have a serious problem.
Maddox rereads the work of writers including Herman Melville, Catherine Sedgewick, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Francis Parkman within the; context of the public debates on 'the Indian ...
However, as Lucy Maddox demonstrates in Citizen Indians, some prominent Indian intellectuals of the era--including Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Eastman, and Arthur C. Parker--were able to adapt and reshape the forms of public performance as one ...
This book explains what mental health is, considering how it relates to lots of different experiences, from how we manage really big feelings, to how we get on with each other, how we make choices and how we handle stressful situations.