Bøger af Craig Newnes

"A refreshing journey through the alphabet, with the lens focused on electroshock - this book is clear, provocative, accessible and full of illuminating examples and anecdotes from eminent psychologists, psychiatrists and others from history. It makes for a riveting read, one that will at times make you laugh out loud and then instantly recoil in horror. At other times, it will make you cringe with shame (if you are part of the psy-professions that allow this practice to continue). Always, it will shock with a blunt and hard-hitting dismantling of electroshock. The shock is amplified when some of those subjected to electroshock, well-known figures in history - musicians, dancers, politicians, or their partners, are named, humanised, no longer statistics of faceless 'patients' or 'clients', but people the public may recognise. The book is a reminder, if one is needed, that electroshock should have no place in mental health practice today. But it does. When future generations look back in fifty years and ask 'Really, they did that? Why?' what will we answer?" Professor Nimisha Patel, University of East London and International Centre for Health and Human Rights. This searing critique examines how psychiatry, allied with psychology, experiments on people in the name of helping and healing. Both professions have a mainly 'boys with toys' approach in using the latest technologies to try to change people. Covering over three hundred years of the psy industry, this volume explores everything from the invention of mental illness and physical assault called 'treatment' to the latest efforts to use electricity to torture us into submission.

After the remains of the Armada hobbled back to Spain, an extraordinary document - part diary, part love letter - is discovered on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. When it is translated, it reveals - not treachery nor evidence of Spanish military ambition - but something about the human condition. Because love, loss, laughter and the madness of war are all in Tearagh't. This is an evocative and passionate novel, like no other in its ability to take you into another age. The author has developed a whole new language, which brings the experience of being on a ship in the Armada alive, as it battles its way down the English Channel, interspersed by some strange, incognito runs ashore. The diary is complicated by the Jewish origins of the narrator and his conversation in his head with his lover back home in sixteenth century Spain. But the lover, as it turns out, is also thinking about him - and she sounds remarkably modern... Will Isidore and his great love ever be reunited? Can that kind of passion ever be kept apart? Yet there is Isidore in his remote island prison - how is anything else possible? Then fate takes a peculiar hand... "Falling in love isn't in your control. It's a wonderfully accurate phrase, isn't it? You fall, with amazing luck, you both fall into it. It's like a bottomless, heavenly well. You both tumble, then plunge. Down and down. Holding hands ... but luck never holds you. One day, one of you hits the side of the well. The other keeps falling, always hurting - knowing your souls are no longer bound, no longer one in this life. That somewhere, far above you, lies the broken body that can only be touched now in dreams." "Sexy, gripping, brilliant..." Abigail Bray

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the complicity of patients, professions and governments with Psy and attempts by all three to constrain the industry's activities.