The Unfragile Mind
Making Sense of Mental Health
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:12th Feb '26
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback - Signed Edition£18.99(9781800819757-S)
A deeply human and compassionate re-evaluation of mental illness from the GP and bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being
'I thought Gavin Francis couldn't get any better, but I was wrong. This is his best and most important book' Bill Bryson 'Francis combines the precision of science with a profound insight into the human condition' GUARDIAN 'This is a book to change lives - and save them.' Ian Rankin FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING AND RECOVERY Between a quarter and a fifth of young people in the UK now suffer a mental disorder. One in four adults are prescribed psychiatric medication. These numbers represent a huge and recent expansion in mental health labelling, but reveal nothing of the experience of those seeking help. In The Unfragile Mind, Gavin draws on conversations with patients, colleagues, and his thirty years of practice to explore the chequered history of psychiatry, the nature of mental health and ill-health, and the problems - including mood disorders, trauma, anxiety and addiction - that he addresses daily. The mind, he argues, is dynamic and adaptive - better addressed not with rigid labels and protocols, but with curiosity, kindness, humility and hope.
Fascinating and beautifully written * The Times *
I thought Gavin Francis couldn't get any better, but I was wrong. This is his best and most important book -- Bill Bryson, author of NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND and THE BODY
A hugely accomplished piece of writing... Utterly absorbing. It has changed the way I think about mental health - my own included. A wise, humane, kind, iconoclastic and even therapeutic read. And uplifting: I finished it feeling far better about the world. -- Allan Little
A manifesto against an atomised society... a really hopeful book * Evening Standard *
Dr Gavin Francis writes with empathy, fluency and elegance about one of the most important medical topics of our times. This is a book to change lives - and save them
Elucidating... offers new perspectives on the maintenance of mental health * Sunday Post *
Excellent - beautifully written, moving and wise. Everybody with an interest in mental health should read it -- Henry Marsh, author of AND FINALLY: A NEUROSURGEON'S REFLECTIONS ON LIFE
Gavin Francis' thoughtfulness shines in this meditation on the mind ... a clear and hopeful exploration of what it means to think and feel -- Grace Spence Green, author of TO EXIST AS I AM
Praise for Gavin Francis: 'Francis offers hope and a rare and precious quiet form of consolation * Observer *
Heartfelt and persuasively argued * Sunday Times *
Wise, gentle and quietly hopeful -- Rachel Clarke, author of The Story of a Heart
To call this ambitious is to break new frontiers in understatement... his prose is cadenced, vivid and crackling with telling details * Guardian *
ISBN: 9781800819757
Dimensions: 220mm x 134mm x 34mm
Weight: 409g
304 pages
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