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No More Normal. Review by Barbara Lewis. Consultant neuropsychiatrist Alastair Santhouse has for more than a quarter of a century worked to try to solve the diverse and complex issues of those considered to be abnormal.
Poetry review – MIRROR, MIRROR: IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEAD: Alwyn Marriage looks squarely at Sam Smith’s uncompromising poems about mental health patients and those who care for them
Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body by Alastair Santhouse.
Santhouse has found his destined niche in an NHS office, with mismatched furniture and absolutely no view, where he tries to fathom the very adult issues of desperate people on the edge of our society, many of whom have flummoxed every other medical department.
No More Normal. Review by Barbara Lewis. Consultant neuropsychiatrist Alastair Santhouse has for more than a quarter of a century worked to try to solve the diverse and complex issues of those considered to be abnormal.
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