The Madness - A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD

Informationen zum Autor Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents and an award-winning broadcaster and author. He has been awarded a BAFTA and named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and the Sony Radio Awards. Klappentext BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAn Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is darkest, he made a name for reporting with humanity and empathy from places where death and serious injury were not abstractions, and tragedy often just a moment's bad luck away. But all this time he struggled not to be overwhelmed by another story, his acute 'complex post-traumatic stress disorder', a condition arising from exposure to multiple instances of trauma experienced over a long period. This condition has caused him to suffer a number of mental breakdowns and hospitalisations. Despite this, and countless promises to do otherwise, he has gone back to the wars again and again. Why? In this powerful and intensely personal book, Keane interrogates what it is that draws him to the wars, what keeps him there and offers a reckoning of the damage done. PTSD affects people from all walks of life. Trauma can be found in many places, not just war. Keane's book speaks to the struggle of all who are trying to recover from injury, addiction and mental breakdown. It is a survivor's story drawn from lived experience, told with honesty, courage and an open heart. Vorwort A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD from Sunday Times Bestselling Author and BBC Correspondent Fergal Keane Zusammenfassung But all this time he struggled not to be overwhelmed by another story, his acute ‘complex post-traumatic stress disorder’, a condition arising from exposure to multiple instances of trauma experienced over a long period....

Product details

• Authors: Fergal Keane, Keane Fergal
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780008420420
• ISBN: 978-0-00-842042-0
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, True war & combat stories, Memoirs, Psychiatry, Press & journalism, Trauma & shock, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Diseases & disorders, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Trauma and shock, News media and journalism, True war and combat stories, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Psychiatric and mental disorders, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)