{"product_id":"9780008591892","title":"The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ \u003cstrong\u003eALAIN DE BOTTON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' \u003cstrong\u003eNATHAN FILER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if our intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. And there is still no biological test which can diagnose any mental health problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo where are we going wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she began to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart radical manifesto, part revealing memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Maps We Carry\u003c\/em\u003e provides a new path to understanding and re-evaluating our approaches to mental health. This is a book is for everyone who has questioned why they are the way they are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rose Cartwright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898396594325,"sku":"9780008591892","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008591892_9d36396c-931a-481d-8a19-b783fcb4899c.jpg?v=1776888494","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008591892","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}