The Skeleton Cupboard - The making of a clinical psychologist

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron''s account of her years of training to be a clinical psychologist. As a trainee, she found herself in some of the toughest placements in her career. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced, Tanya shares remarkable stories inspired by the people she had the privilege to treat. Gripping and poignant, this book reveals the frightening and challenging induction faced by all mental health staff and highlights their incredible commitment to their patients. Teeming with daring humour and heart-rending stories, The Skeleton Cupboard is a testament to the extraordinary strength of ordinary people pitted against life''s challenges.

About the author

Professor Tanya Byron is a clinical psychologist, specialising in working with children and adolescents, with twenty years' experience. She is also a journalist, author and broadcaster. Her TV presenting and on-screen expert credits include the BBC series Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways and Bedtime Live for Channel 4. She writes a weekly column for The Times and a monthly column for Good Housekeeping and is a BBC Radio 4 presenter, contributing to a range of programmes. Collaborating with Jennfier Saunders she co-wrote the popular BBC comedy series The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

Tanya advises on international policy relating to children, young people, mental health and education, and is currently working in China to develop services for children, young people and their families. She is President of the teenage mental health charity Mindfull, a patron of Relate, and an ambassador of The National Family and Parenting Institute.

www.professortanyabyron.com

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Moving and thought-provoking Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Byron
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9781447270218
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7021-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Pan Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Biography: general, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Clinical psychology, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine