Breakdown, Third Edition: A Personal Crisis and a Medical Dilemma

This acclaimed account by the bestselling author of Irrationality of his own manic depression remains unique in its honesty and perception. As an eminent psychologist who suffered a severe mental breakdown, Stuart Sutherland was ideally placed to provide an original and insightful description of his illness and its often bizarre consequences.

In the second part of Breakdown, Sutherland describes and assesses the various forms of therapy and drug treatments available to sufferers of manic depression and analyses the origins of mental illness. Essential reading for anyone affected by or interested in mental illness.