Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place
Insightful study of solitude, mental health and geography
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
THIS timely memoir by psychiatrist, author and mental-health campaigner Linda Gask draws on her own experiences as a patient and consultant psychiatrist, and serves to remind us of our inner reserves, how to strengthen them and find help in whatever form that may be.
Gask has recurrent clinical depression and, for her, the capitalist view of “recovery” bears no relation to her experiences, professionally or personally. Her own recovery has been a lifelong matter, complicated by early-life events. Mood can dominate her day, draining it of colour and vibrancy.
She thinks psychiatrists should be asking: “How do you get through the day?” as this gives a much clearer picture of the difficulties patients face.
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What’s needed are more truly accessible homes, radical reform of the private sector to protect disabled tenants, and a less myopic view of the housing market focused on ‘homeowners,’ argues RUTH HUNT
