Going Mad? Understanding Mental Illness

Madness is as much a part of being human as is joy.

The mind is a place which of itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.

Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Wild Geese’ calls out to us with the theme of personal liberation, both through the awareness of the ‘soft animal’ and a reminder that we have a place in the grand scheme of things.

He is the co-author of two books with Dr Áine Tubridy: Going Mad? and Depression: An Emotion, Not a Dis

Dr Michael Corry died in 2010. He qualified in medicine from UCD in 1973 before training as a psychiatrist and a constructivist psychotherapist.

She is the author of When Panic Attacks and co-author with Dr Michael Corry of Going Mad? and Depression: An Emotion, Not a Disease.

Until her death in 2011, Dr Áine Tubridy was a medical doctor and practising psychotherapist living and working in Ireland.

Watson, J. Allen, M.D., The Chemistry of Conscious States, Little Brown and Co. 1994
A highly readable book on the chemistry that drives consciousness.

Podvoll, Edward, M.D., The Seduction of Madness, Harper Collins, NY 1990
Chronicles of the journey into mania.

Pert, Candace, Ph.D., The Molecules of Emotion, Simon and Schuster, London 1997
A scientific explanation of how our feelings are chemically created.