Psychiatric tales : eleven graphic stories about mental illness / Darryl Cunningham.

Variant title 11 graphic stories about mental illness
Contents Dementia ward -- Cut -- It could be you -- Darkness -- Anti-social personality disorder -- People with mental illness enrich our lives -- Blood -- Bipolar disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Suicide -- How I lived again.
Abstract "Psychiatric Tales draws on Darryl Cunningham's time working in a psychiatric ward to give a reasoned and sympathetic look into the world of mental illness. In each chapter, Cunningham explores a different mental health problem, using evocative imagery to describe the experience of mental illness, both from the point of view of those beset by illness and their friends and relatives. As Cunningham reveals this human experience, he also shows how society's perceptions of and reactions to mental illness perpetuate needless stigma, for example, the myth that schizophrenic people are more likely to commit crimes than non-schizophrenic people. Psychiatric Tales is a groundbreaking graphic work; it deftly demythologizes and destigmatizes the disorders that 26.2 percent of American adults live with every day."-- Provided by publisher.
General noteOriginally published: Blank Slate Books Limited, London, 2010.
Genre/formGraphic novels.
LCCN 2022439509
ISBN9781608192786 (hardcover)
ISBN1608192784 (hardcover)

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