What Mental Illness Really Is (and what it isn t)

'A must-read... Fascinating' Jo Brand We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why.How do mental health problems arise?How do we distinguish between the 'normal' challenges of modern life and actual illness?Is society really experiencing a new mental health crisis?In this urgently needed book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes investigates what we know about mental illness - and shines a light on what we don't. It offers a profound new approach to how we think, talk and help when it comes to mental health.(Previously published in 2021 in hardback under the title Losing Our Minds.)'Captivating...engaging and lucid' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, author of Inventing Ourselves'Clear-headed, compassionate and, ultimately, optimistic' Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 'Thorough, wise...much needed' Mark Rice-Oxley, author of Underneath the Lemon Tree