Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781608192786 (1608192784)
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Science,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics
an empathetic look at mental illness from someone who was on the frontlines of care and who experienced mental illness.
Cunningham, a cartoonist who worked on a Bristish psychiatric ward, tells 11 "graphic stories" (i.e., stories in visual format) of psychiatric disorders. These are not 11 tales of people (though some include anonymized people and one describes the author's own experiences with anxiety. For the most ...
sad but ultimately redeemining
sad but ultimately redeemining
I got this book as a birthday gift from two dear friends of mine. We share many interests, and the workings of the human mind is one of them, so they figured this book would be a good match for me. It's a good premise. The author spent a few years working as a health care assistant in a psychiatri...