Overview

A dazzling, genre-defying examination of therapy and recovery from the uniquely brilliant clinical neuropsychologist and literary voice A K Benjamin, author of Let Me Not Be Mad A taxi driver with a screwdriver lodged in the memory centre of his brain has his entire identity re-constructed. A patient with a complex aphasia that makes him sound like a dog when he speaks but does not realise it. A maths professor whose stroke has ruined everything apart from her giant mind. Drawing on his work as clinical neuropsychologist and his experiences in the wake of his own descent into madness, A K Benjamin takes us on profound enquiry into the meaning of healing, recovery and the clinical relationship. Drifting from place to place - North East India, Barcelona, California, Chile, Berlin, the Amazon - his own experiments with therapy are entwined with recollections of his patients- from ayuhuasca retreats to pet therapy, from couples counselling to severe diets and meditation. As he peels back the layers of his self, we arrive at an ingenious and shocking confrontation with the truth that lies beneath his disguised identity.

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Author:   A K Benjamin
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   The Bodley Head Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781847926203

ISBN 10:   1847926207
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Like a meeting of Oliver Sacks and Hunter S Thompson ... this is not a simple narrative of striking cases written by a far-seeing practitioner. It's a turbo-charged race -- Lisa Appignanesi * New Statesman * Imagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafka's 'The Country Doctor', and you still won't quite have the flavour of this wild and strikingly original book -- William Fiennes A perfectly extraordinary - not to mention extraordinarily perfect - tense Hitchcockian psychodrama. I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness. An important, profound and fascinating book -- Stephen Fry Let Me Not be Mad is stunning: clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest; one of the best portraits of madness and clinical practice I've read. I read it in two sittings. Extraordinary -- Olivia Laing Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat * Guardian (on Let Me Not Be Mad) *

Author Information

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad- A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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