Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness by Cunningham, Darryl

Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness

Psychiatric Tales draws on Darryl Cunningham's time working in a psychiatric ward to give a reasoned and...
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Author: Darryl Cunningham
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness by Cunningham, Darryl

Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness

CHF 23.90

Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness

CHF 23.90
Author: Darryl Cunningham
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.

Concluding with a reflection on how mental illness has affected his own life, Darryl Cunningham's Psychiatric Tales is a moving, engaging examination of what is, at its root, the human condition.

Darryl Cunningham is the creator of the Web comics Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night and The Streets of San Diablo. He is a prolific cartoonist, sculptor, and photographer, and lives in Leeds, England. This is his first book.

Author: Darryl Cunningham
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 02/19/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.81w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781608192786


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2011

About the Author

Darryl Cunningham is the creator of the web comics Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night and The Streets of San Diablo. A prolific cartoonist, sculptor and photographer, he lives in Leeds, England. This is his first book.


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