{"product_id":"pathological","title":"Pathological","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN APPLE BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúMasterfully written, distinctively researched, deeply humane . . . Genius.‚Äù‚ÄîANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJarhead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúA major contribution . . . A necessary book.‚Äù‚ÄîJOHANN HARI, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLost Connections\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúThis book is a triumph of the spirit and the flesh.‚Äù‚ÄîELIZA GRISWOLD, Pulitzer Prize‚Äìwinning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this stunning debut‚Äîboth a memoir and a work of investigative journalism‚Äîwriter Sarah Fay explores the ways we pathologize human experiences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses‚Äîanorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePathological\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (DSM)‚Äîpsychiatry‚Äôs ‚Äúbible,‚Äù the manual from which all mental illness diagnoses come. Yet as Fay found out, some of our most prominent psychiatrists have been trying to warn us that the DSM is fiction sold to the public as fact. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePathological\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, former advisory editor at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and award-winning writer Fay calls for a new conversation about mental health diagnosis, one based on rigorous transparency. With exquisite detail and a precise presentation of fact, she digs up her own life at the root to finally ask, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIs a diagnosis a lifeline or a self-fulfilling prophecy?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePowerful, mesmerizing, and unputdownable, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePathological \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esits alongside the other brave and inspiring classics of our time that explore a more intelligent, forgiving, and nuanced approach to human suffering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120168243485,"sku":"9780063068698","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780063068698.jpg?v=1751399538","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/pathological","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}