The Art of Binding People

The Art of Binding People A Poetic Memoir That Challenges Assumptions on Mental Health

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Publisher's Synopsis

We often speak of doctors as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience on an emergency psychiatric ward, Paolo Milone offers a more complex-and more compelling-picture. He transports us inside Ward 77, where mental illness coexists with the ordinary lives of those who, at the end of their shifts, take their white coats off. 

In this unsettling, absorbing, and transformative memoir Milone challenges many of our assumptions about mental health, as we follow nurses, doctors, and patients along the hospital corridors, and we enter the shattered lives of those living on both sides of the invisible, arbitrary boundary, that separates the healthy from the sick.

Told with humour and compassion, Paolo Milone's English language debut is a work of striking humanity that conjures lasting beauty out of the darkness.

Book information

ISBN: 9781787704510
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd.
Imprint: Europa Editions
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.89023
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 234g
Height: 209mm
Width: 136mm
Spine width: 24mm