My Life in Mental Health:A NurseÕs Story

My Life in Mental Health:A NurseÕs StoryMy Life in Mental Health: A Nurses Story relates honestly and without pretense the journey of a man who grew up in a family who struggled with mental health issues. John Nugent, the memoirist, tells how those early experiences led him to explore psychology to better understand both himself and his often chaotic family. His hands on work in mental health nursing provides the grounding for his narrative that explores the development of modern mental

My Life in Mental Health: A NurseÕs Story relates Ð honestly and without pretense Ð the journey of a man who grew up in a family who struggled with mental health issues. John Nugent, the memoirist, tells how those early experiences led him to explore psychology to better understand both himself and his often-chaotic family.

His hands-on work in mental health nursing provides the grounding for his narrative that explores the development of modern mental health care. In just a few decades mental health treatment transformed from a Òdoctor knows bestÓ discipline and arrived where the best treatments tend to emerge from the expressed needs and desires of clients.

My Life in Mental Health: A NurseÕs Story will inform and inspire anyone who has felt the impact of mental illness in his or her family or who cares about people with mental illness. The author makes a compelling case for putting to rest the enduring stigma toward people who live with mental illness.