- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
"Read[ing] like compelling, crafted fiction," this bestselling memoir is a "powerful, vivid and moving" account of the mysteries of the human mind (
Sydney Morning Herald).
In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron recounts the stories of the patients who most influenced her career as a mental health practitioner. Spanning her years of trainingāyears in which Byron was forced her to contend with the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and confront a dark moment in her own family's pastā The Skeleton Cupboard is a compelling and compassionate account of how much health practitioners can learn from those they treat. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be shown tenderness and compassion; Mollie, a talented teenager intent on starving herself; and Imogen, a twelve-year old so haunted by a secret that she's intent on killing herself.
Byron brings the reader along as she uncovers the reasons each of these individuals behave the way they do, resulting in a thrilling, compulsively readable psychological mystery that sheds light on mental illness and what its treatment tells us about ourselves.
"Moving and thought-provoking" ā Sunday Times (London)
"AbsorbingĀ .Ā .Ā .Ā . A lucid and compassionate memoir." ā Kirkus Reviews
In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron recounts the stories of the patients who most influenced her career as a mental health practitioner. Spanning her years of trainingāyears in which Byron was forced her to contend with the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and confront a dark moment in her own family's pastā The Skeleton Cupboard is a compelling and compassionate account of how much health practitioners can learn from those they treat. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be shown tenderness and compassion; Mollie, a talented teenager intent on starving herself; and Imogen, a twelve-year old so haunted by a secret that she's intent on killing herself.
Byron brings the reader along as she uncovers the reasons each of these individuals behave the way they do, resulting in a thrilling, compulsively readable psychological mystery that sheds light on mental illness and what its treatment tells us about ourselves.
"Moving and thought-provoking" ā Sunday Times (London)
"AbsorbingĀ .Ā .Ā .Ā . A lucid and compassionate memoir." ā Kirkus Reviews
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Introduction: My Grandmotherās Frontal Lobes
- One: The Eyes Have It
- Two: At the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea
- Three: Practice Tales
- Four: Harold and the Nazis
- Five: The Skeleton Cupboard
- Six: Dodging Stones
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright