The Maps We Carry

Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health

Rose Cartwright

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The Borough Press
31 July 2024

Mental health services; Diseases & disorders; Psychiatry; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON

'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER

Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté

What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable?

What if our intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection?

Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. And there is still no biological test which can diagnose any mental health problem.

So where are we going wrong?

In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she began to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm.

Part radical manifesto, part revealing memoir, The Maps We Carry provides a new path to understanding and re-evaluating our approaches to mental health. This is a book is for everyone who has questioned why they are the way they are.

By: Rose Cartwright
Imprint: The Borough Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780008591885
ISBN 10: 0008591881
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 31 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter whose memoir, Pure, about her life with intrusive sexual thoughts, was adapted for Channel 4. Her writing about psychedelics, consciousness and mental health has been published in The Face, Vice and the Guardian. Rose is a writer on the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem.

Reviews for The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health

Reviews for Rose Cartwright’s PURE: ‘This book is written with such staggering honesty your jaw might literally drop at certain moments. This is a very welcome look at unwelcome thoughts and how minds can stage their own uprisings against us. There is pain here, but also a lot of humour and Rose writes with such dead-on frankness that you are gripped from the first to last page’ Matt Haig 'Bold and darkly funny' ES Magazine 'Bright and funny. . . Pure is an enlightening read helping to highlight a form of mental illness that has been hushed up for so long' Independent