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Fighting for Mental Health. A Personal View. By Sartorius Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. 252 pp. £29.95 (hb). ISBN 0 521 58243 1
‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?’
(T. S.Eliot, The Rock, 1934)
This book is a delight to read. By one of our leading international psychiatrists, it brings both wisdom and knowledge to bear on many key issues that the mental health movement currently faces. It is a collection of essays, some written especially for the book, others based on previous writings and lectures. The introduction gives us a fascinating insight into the development of Sartorius the psychiatrist – his desire to study medicine, to move into psychiatry and to include psychology in his portfolio; he describes a formative influence on his...