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A review by 11corvus11
Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds by Anthony David
4.0
Audiobooked this. It was a nice little pop-psychology book accessible to people without any background in it. The author emphasizes kindness and also discussed some treatments often seen as extreme (TMS, ECT, etc,) but in my opinion are often not any more extreme than a lifetime on life altering psych meds. Case study books always feel a little iffy to me because while they claim to change enough about the stories so that people are not recognizable, I always imagine myself reading a book like this and finding my own story in it and how I would feel. But, I also think individual cases provide more understanding for most people than aggregated statistics.