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MBE, Graham Morgan

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ISBN 10 : 1912280078 ISBN 13 : 9781912280070

Editeur : Fledgling Press, 2018

Synopsis

This biography does not gloss over or glamorise mental illness, instead Graham Morgan highlights that people can, and do, live full and positive lives.

Join Graham through his recollections of detention under the Mental Health act, learning to live with a new family, and coping with the symptoms that he still struggles to accept are an illness. He takes your through his preparations to address the United Nations in his role working with the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

Graham Morgan has an MBE for services to mental health, and helped to write the Scottish Mental Health (2003) Care and Treatment Act.

This is the Act under which he is now detained.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graham was born in 1963 in York. He went to university as an angst-ridden student and was quickly admitted to one of the old mental asylums, prompting the work he has done for most of his life: helping people with mental illness speak up about their lives and their rights.

He has mainly worked in Scotland, where he has lived for the last thirty years, twenty of them in the Highlands.

In the course of this work he has been awarded an MBE, made Joint Service User Contributor of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and, lately, has spoken at the UN about his and other peoples' experiences of detention.

He has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and has been compulsorily treated under a CTO for the last nine years. He currently lives in Argyll with his partner and her young twins.

Start is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fledgling Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912280078
• ISBN 13: 9781912280070
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible