Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781913183226
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Octopus


Description:
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025

'Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill... compelling, important, haunting.'

THE NEW YORK TIMES

A really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk will help and empower so many people.

JOHANN HARI, author of Stolen Focus and Lost Connections

Unshrunk is the story of a young woman who dared to be herself, and a potent reminder of why human suffering can never be reduced to a diagnostic manual. A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.

ANNA LEMBKE, author of Dopamine Nation

'A wonderful, incisive and deeply moving book... provides a rare glimpse behind the curtain of a profession in peril.'

DR JAMES DAVIES, AUTHOR OF CRACKED AND SEDATES

'Inspiring... A wake-up call about a deeply flawed system'

PROFESSOR JOANNA MONCRIEFF

In this gripping, essential memoir, Laura Delano takes readers through the labyrinth of the American mental health system, where 'the best available care' left her sicker, more desperate, and more lost than ever before. This beautiful, rageful, joyful book is a beacon for all seeking a life beyond labels, beyond medication, beyond disorder.

JESSICA NORDELL, AUTHOR OF THE END OF BIAS: A BEGINNING

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I began to think about the forces at play, not just within me, but beyond me. What if my life hadn't fallen apart in the way that it had because of 'treatment-resistant mental illness', as I'd been led to belie