On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry

Penelope Campling's book "On the Brink" is a powerful call to arms for treating serious mental illness. It offers compassion, insight, and tentative hope, and highlights the urgent need for better mental health services. Campling's approach to therapeutic communities has helped patients break generational cycles of trauma, change internal narratives, overcome abuse, and rebuild their lives. The book combines patients' stories with candid self-reflections on the difficult business of helping others. It is an expert in intelligent kindness and an invitation to act to deliver a vision of what could be possible.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2024
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Penelope Campling, a highly respected doctor and therapist, has written a powerful book called "On the Brink" that calls for urgent action to address serious mental illness. The book is brimming with compassion, insight, and tentative hope. Susie Orbach, author of "In Therapy," describes it as deeply thoughtful and compassionate, while Gavin Francis, author of "Adventures in Human Being," wishes she were in charge of the NHS. Dr. Campling has spent her life working on the frontline of mental health care, and she has an urgent message for us all: our health service is at breaking point, and we are failing people in serious mental distress. She shows how therapeutic communities have helped her patients break generational cycles of trauma, change crippling internal narratives of shame and despair, overcome abuse, and rebuild their lives to find meaning and hope. The book combines patients' stories with candid self-reflections on the difficult business of helping others, and it is an expert in intelligent kindness. Gwen Adshead, author of "The Devil You Know," describes it as an insightful and important book that showcases what could be possible and invites us to act to deliver that vision. Kathryn Mannix, author of "Listen," says the book oozes compassion and kindness and made her want to be a more understanding doctor. Kate Milto also praises the book for its compassion and kindness and its ability to make her want to be a more understanding doctor.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783967001