New Book Published by SANE Australia
Feb 7th, 2012 by admin
SANE Australia, the national mental health charity, has announced Understanding Troubled Minds: a guide to mental illness and its treatment as its 2012 Book of the Year.
The SANE Book of the Year Award recognises outstanding Australian non-fiction titles which promote understanding of mental illness and its effect in the community.
‘Drawing on a wealth of experience in psychiatry, Sidney Bloch has written a book that is accessible, comprehensive and user-friendly. It’s an excellent resource on mental illness for the general public’ says Barbara Hocking, Executive Director of SANE Australia.
Understanding Troubled Minds is ‘well overdue’ and ‘contributes to the creation of a common language which patients, family members as well as other carers can understand’ say international mental health experts.
Published by Melbourne University Press, this fully revised second edition examines the broad spectrum of mental health topics.
Chapters include Making sense of a life; Defining and classifying mental illnesses; The spectrum of anxiety; Eating disorders; The elderly; Gender identity and sexual disorders, and Promoting mental health.
Barbara Hocking says Understanding Troubled Minds complements SANE Australia’s own resources on mental illness and suicide prevention.
‘We have a suite of guide books, DVDs and other material to help people with mental illness, their families and supporters through the distress and confusion many feel, especially at the time of diagnosis.
‘It has a reassuring tone and the use of case studies helps to personalise “troubled minds”,’ Ms Hocking says. ‘Every household should have a copy.’
Sidney Bloch is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. He was Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry for a decade and Chief Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry for 13 years.
The SANE Australia 2012 Book of the Year, Understanding Troubled Minds, is available at
http://www.sane.org/information/bookshop
