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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Sandstone Press

FORMAT: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781913207342

RRP: £8.99

PUBLICATION DATE:
March 18, 2021

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Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place

Linda Gask

Beneath the wide skies of Orkney Linda Gask recalls her career as a consultant psychiatrist and her lifelong struggle with her own mental health. After the favelas of Brazil, the glittering cities of the Middle East, and the forests of Haida Gwaii, will she find perspective, spiritual relief, and healing in her new home?

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Linda Gask

Linda Gask trained in Medicine in Edinburgh and is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Having worked as a consultant psychiatrist for many years she is now retired and lives on Orkney. She maintains a popular mental health blog, Patching the Soul (lindagask.com), and contributes to Twitter as a mental health influencer. She is the author of The Other Side of Silence(2015), which was featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and serialised in the Times Magazine. In 2017 she was awarded the prestigious President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.