In todays episode I am talking with Dr Rachel Pruchno, the author of Beyond Madness; the pain and possibilities of mental illness. 

Dr Pruchno is a research psychologist who studies successful aging as her day job, but who has a strong interest and passion for opening up the conversation about mental illness and has written this book as a part of this goal. In it she uses her own experiences with her family as well as several "heroes" to explain the often complex world of mental illness and to distil the research into a way that can be understood by anyone. As she puts it in her book her education taught her a lot about mental health but her family taught her a lot about mental illness

We discuss not only her book but also some of the differences (and similarities) between America and the UK, a few models of care, medication, and even mental illness and violence. 

Beyond Madness on amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Madness-Possibilities-Serious-Illness/dp/1799799514