Staying Sane - Softcover

Raj Persaud

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9780857500670: Staying Sane
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857500678 ISBN 13: 9780857500670
Publisher: Transworld Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Dr. Raj Persaud's illuminating new book is aimed at anyone who wants to stay free of psychological problems--whatever their current state of mind. Focusing on prevention, and drawing on more than700 international references, Dr. Persaud explains the "tactics" that will help strengthen your psyche and reduce your vulnerability to emotional problems--for good. Dr. Persaud is an award-winning physician and a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His work appears regularly in the national press as well as in leading professional journals.

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About the Author

Raj Persaud is a consultant psychiatrist working in the British National Health Service at the world-famous Maudsley Hospital in south London, and an honorary senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Uniquely for a doctor, he also holds a first-class honours degree in psychology from University College London, which recently awarded him the title of Fellow in recognition of his ground-breaking work in psychiatry. Other medical awards and honours include the prestigious Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Prize and Medal, the Denis Hill Prize and the Osler Medal. As well as medicine, psychology and psychiatry, he holds university-level qualifications in statistics, history and philosophy. Raj Persaud is the author of Staying Sane, The Motivated Mind and From the Edge of the Couch and his work has been published in academic medical journals, including the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the British Journal of Psychiatry. He writes regularly for the national press and hosts BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind - the only broadcast series dedicated specifically to reporting on academic psychology and psychiatry. He also appears regularly on television programmes such as Question Time, Newsnight and Tomorrow's World. In a recent poll of members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists published in the Independent on Sunday newspaper, he was voted one of the top ten psychiatrists in the UK. He is married to an eye surgeon, has a son and a daughter, and lives in London.

Review

"'He can do what most consultants can't - translate medspeak into plain English'" * Independent * "'A radical new approach to keeping ourselves mentally healthy'" * Independent * "'He is the most eminent psychiatrist of the age...the guru of common sense'" * Spectator * "'Staying Sane contains a brave, unorthodox message - the solution to all but the most severe mental problems is within yourself'"

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Publisher
Transworld Publishers
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0857500678
ISBN 13 
9780857500670
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
656
Rating
  • 3.71 out of 5 stars
    58 ratings by Goodreads

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