‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON
'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER
Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor MatéWhat if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable?
What if our intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection?
Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. And there is still no biological test which can diagnose any mental health problem.
So where are we going wrong?
In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she began to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm.
Part radical manifesto, part revealing memoir, The Maps We Carry provides a new path to understanding and re-evaluating our approaches to mental health. This is a book is for everyone who has questioned why they are the way they are.
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The Maps We Carry 9780008591885 Hardback
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I started regularly (weekly) using Indica (marijuana) 10 years ago, and have been profoundly changed by it. I now call what I do “meditation”. I had no one with whom I could discuss all of the things I was learning, and so have actually done a lot of writing about my experiences. This book!! Wow!!…
I started regularly (weekly) using Indica (marijuana) 10 years ago, and have been profoundly changed by it. I now call what I do “meditation”. I had no one with whom I could discuss all of the things I was learning, and so have actually done a lot of writing about my experiences. This book!! Wow!! It’s as though someone captured most of my experience in one place. I wasn’t even trying to achieve what I have achieved. I just learned the best way to investigate and understand my own body and mind was through vaping indica. I am SO pleased that Rose Cartwright has made this excellent book to help others!
- Authors:
- Cartwright, Rose
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780008591885
- Publication Date:
- 11/04/2024
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Number of Pages:
- 384
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780008591885