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  • This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

  • By: Nathan Filer
  • Narrated by: Nathan Filer
  • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (471 ratings)

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Summary

'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran
'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink
'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand
'Brilliant . . . I love it.' Phillippa Perry
'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health.' Joanna Cannon

A journey into the heartland of psychiatry.

This book debunks myths, challenges assumptions and offers fresh insight into what it means to be mentally ill.

And what it means to be human.

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health was previously published in 2019 under the title The Heartland.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Nathan Filer (P)2019 Faber Audio
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Critic reviews

"I cannot recommend it highly enough." (Caitlin Moran)

"Brims with compassion and wit." (Cathy Rentzenbrink)

"Absolutely blew me away." (Jo Brand)

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I thought I was hardened!

I’ve worked in and around mental health in a variety of settings all my life. This book echoed my beliefs. But the stories made me cry. I have heard many, but still the cost of ‘so called mental health’ is heartbreaking. Good listen, very moving.

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Wonderful

this is a wonderfully accessible book, authentic, curious and fair it explores very important aspects of mental health. thank you for writing this you reminded me that I'm.not alone in how I consider people and the experiences the talk to me about.

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good read...better understanding

narrator voice was easy to listen too. content was helpful and challenged what is regarded as the norm. helpped me have a better understanding of the system

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Thoroughly engaging...

... Important and perspective changing. A vital exploration of real lives impacted by so called mental health and the current and historical thinking around the issues.

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Absolutely fascinating listen.

Such an interesting insight into schizophrenia and the Western treatment of it.
Nathan Filer delivers the book in a gentle and knowledgeable manner and makes it comprehensible and accessible even if you have no awareness of the subject matter.

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Very sensitive book

Amazing insights - great seeing it from a nurses prospective as the best book I have read on this subject

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heavy but enjoyable

Some parts were very hard to listen to but overall very insightful. Would recommend

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A wonderful sensitive and kind book should be read

A truly very wonderful kind and compassionate book that should be read by absolutely everyone.

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Eye Opening

Kind of blew me away really. I have listened to so many audible books but never felt compelled to actually right a review. That to me speaks volumes for this book.
Insightful and compassionate explanation of the state of affairs in the mental health system and what is the reality for people living with psychosis and schizophrenia. Told through the experiences of this mental health nurse and the stories of those that have lived it.
Cannot recommend this book more highly.

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This should be a compulsory text….

I would like to see what kind of changes would occur in the treatment of mental health service users (and society) 10 years after “This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health” was made a compulsory text in a core subject of every undergraduate and graduate Medical, Allied Health, Public Health, Public Policy, Law, Criminal Justice and Education degrees.

Suggestions on how to be a key holder:
Buy it, read it, think on it, talk about it, give it as a gift, ask your local library to get in several copies, suggest it to your reading group, leave copies on the train,
Do more than 5 of these and the next version of the DSM may diagnose you as Key Holder with Evangelical tendencies.

To Nathan Filer. Authorship of this book is the definition of a good deed. Thank you.

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