On the Brink
Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry
$23.27
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2024
Summary
‘Perhaps the truth is that severe mental illness is just as frightening, just as stigmatising, just as much a taboo as it has always been …’
Over the course of her forty-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the strain of Covid-19. She has seen many positive changes in how we approach mental health – and yet she is increasingly troubled by the state of our…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783967001 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1783967005 |
| Author: | Penelope Campling |
| Publisher: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Imprint: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
Critics Review
‘Deeply thoughtful and compassionate’ Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy
‘A book with the power to move and inform … [Campling] is an expert in “intelligent kindness”.’ Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know
‘Fantastic new book from Penny Campling - 5 stars’ Dr Kate Lovett, former Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists
[An] insightful, important book … an exhibition of what could be possible and an invitation to act to deliver that vision.’ Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen
‘A lucid and much-needed articulation of the frustration shared by so many struggling to keep the NHS afloat’ Iona Heath, BMJ
‘As a GP I wish I could send patients to Penelope Campling; as someone worried about failing mental health services, I wish she were in charge.’ Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being
‘An important book, moving and honest… stands out in its field of psychotherapist memoirs’ Beth Guilding, TLS
‘This book oozes compassion and kindness and made me want to be a more understanding doctor.’ Kate Milton, British Journal of GP Practice
‘On the Brink is a book brimming with compassion, insight and tentative hope.’ The Observer
‘Campling manages to cover a massive amount of ground in her warm, balanced and engaging account of her career as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist.’ Dr Penny Priest, The Psychologist (BPS)
Penelope Campling
Penelope Campling is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. For twenty years, she ran the NHS personality disorder unit in Leicester, and she is the co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (CUP, 2020). Now retired from the NHS, she continues to lecture and campaign, and works in private practice. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, she has been supporting clinicians on the frontline in intensive care units.
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