Book description
How often do we hear ourselves say, 'I can't cope', 'I'm going mad',
'I'm losing my mind'? Despite the wall-to-wall advice on offer to us
today, how often do we struggle to maintain a healthy mental attitude
in the face of seemingly endless pressure?
Now, in this groundbreaking work, the eminent psychiatrist and
broadcaster, Dr Raj Persaud, confronts crucial issues - such as
emotional intelligence and the meaning of happiness - and offers
proven strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy, positive
mental attitude, regardless of the stresses and strains of daily life.
Packed with case histories, questionnaires and fascinating scientific
research, this is an invaluable, twenty-first century survival
handbook - the ultimate self-help guide to staying sane.
'He is the most eminent psychiatrist of the age...the guru of common
sense' Spectator
'He can do what most consultants can't - translate medspeak into
plain English'
Dr Phil Hammond, Independent
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.
