Review
Essential reading for everyone who is involved in improving services in mental health. --Dorothy Rowe, author and psychologist
Product Description
The true story of how a bright teenager was transformed into a zombie thanks to a cocktail of drugs and electric shock treatment for an illness she never had. Jean Davison lost years of her life when doctors misdiagnosed her mental state as chronic schizophrenia. Sucked into the psychiatric system, she eventually lost her job, her boyfriends and all self-esteem. But eventually she managed to break free. Told with humour and insight, using extracts from her medical case notes, Jean's memoir raises disturbing questions about psychiatric treatment in the sixites and seventies, which are still relevant today.
About the Author
Jean Davison, was born in 1950 into a working class family in Bradford, West Yorkshire She left school at 15 to work in a factory. After moving to Leeds she left the psychiatric system and returned to education to study for GCEs. She has worked as a secretary for the NSPCC and within the health service. In 1979 she met Ian who she later married. She graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a first-class degree in literature and psychology. Still living in Leeds with Ian, works in mental health. The Dark Threads is her first book.
