Unshrunk - How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life And My Fight to Get

Laura Delano is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the Executive Director of Inner Compass Initiative, a charitable organization that she founded to help people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses and drugs. She is a leading ex-patient voice in the international movement of people who''ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized offerings of the mental health system to build something different. Laura works with individuals and families around the world seeking guidance and support for the withdrawal journey and life post-psychiatry. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and children.>

Product details

• Authors: Laura Delano
• Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2026
• EAN: 9781913183233
• ISBN: 978-1-913183-23-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Memoirs, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Nursing / Psychiatric & Mental Health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Mental health services, Care of the mentally ill, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Care of people with mental health issues, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)