Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You

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.

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. aj 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 televisio