Dr Lucy Foulkes is a psychologist who researches mental health and social development in adolescence. She is currently a senior research fellow at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, an honorary lecturer in psychology at UCL and a research fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of What Mental Illness Really Is (and What It Isn't) and has written for the Guardian, New Scientist and numerous other publications and has been interviewed in The Times, VICE and on the BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind and Start the Week.
This wonderful book offers an amazingly readable and cutting-edge
scientific account of mental illness
*Matthew Broome, Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental
Health*
Beautifully written and compassionate... This book is needed
urgently so that we can examine fears of a tsunami of mental health
problems... Anyone touched by such problems will find much helpful
practical advice
*Uta Frith, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Development*
A guide to the start of the art in the science of mental
illness...lucidly written and builds its case with a winning
combination of care and concision... This impressive book is a
great starting point for well-informed conversations on the
issue
*Professor Thomas Dixon, History of Emotions blog*
Everyone who either lives with or knows someone with mental illness
should read it. In other words, everyone should read it
*Essi Viding, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology*
This beautifully written and compassionate account, backed by
state-of-the-art scientific evidence, delivers an important
message: there is far more variation in the state of our mental
health and far more complexity in the diagnosis of mental illness
than we tend to believe. This book is needed urgently so that we
can examine fears of a tsunami of mental health problems,
especially in the light of the current pandemic. Anyone touched by
such problems will find much helpful practical advice
*Uta Frith, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Development*
This wonderful book offers an amazingly readable and cutting-edge
scientific account of mental illness and its relation to the
stresses many young adults experience as well as the language we
use to talk about ourselves
*Matthew Broome, Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental
Health*
Losing Our Minds communicates complex research findings on mental
illness with unusual clarity and compassion, and without
oversimplifying or shying away from the difficult questions.
Everyone who either lives with or knows someone with mental illness
should read it. In other words, everyone should read it
*Essi Viding, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology*
A broad and refreshingly non-political survey ... [that]
highlight[s] several difficult truths about the reality of mental
illness ... Foulkes carefully lays out what we know ... Some of her
findings are surprising ... Foulkes is not interested in grand
generational diagnoses. She argues that while everyone may suffer
from the symptoms of mental distress, only a minority experience
mental illness ... Foulkes's message is a cry for nuance and
complexity. As she writes, 'all forms of psychological distress are
the price we pay for being alive.' While those who are seriously
unwell have a right to professional attention, for the rest of us,
an awareness of this truth may be just the treatment we need
*Prospect*
A totally counter culture take ... kind and clear-thinking
*Helen Rumbelow*
A guide to the state of the art in the science of mental illness
... lucidly written and builds its case with a winning combination
of care and concision ... this impressive book is a great starting
point for well-informed conversations on the issue. It speaks with
calm, rational humanity about why we should hesitate before
medicalising our emotions
*Professor Thomas Dixon, History of Emotions blog*
This is a book that calls for nuance in answering difficult
questions... To Foulkes, the way forward is in acceptance of a hard
truth: we need to support everyone who is struggling in a way
geared to their needs; we need a different conversation about
managing life's sadness
*The Times*
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