Book Signing: My Life in Mental Health: A Nurse's Story by John Nugent

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My Life in Mental Health: A Nurse’s Story relates – honestly and without pretense – the journey of a man who grew up in a family who struggled with mental health issues. John Nugent, the memoirist, tells how those early experiences led him to explore psychology to better understand both himself and his often-chaotic family.

His hands-on work in mental health nursing provides the grounding for his narrative that explores the development of modern mental health care. In just a few decades mental health treatment transformed from a “doctor knows best” discipline and arrived where the best treatments tend to emerge from the expressed needs and desires of clients. In addition, by rooting his account in both personal and professional experience, the author makes a compelling case for putting to rest the enduring stigma toward people who live with mental illness.

My Life in Mental Health: A Nurse’s Story will inform and inspire anyone who has felt the impact of mental illness in his or her family, who cares about people with mental illness, and who desires to learn about a way forward that will move beyond the old, damaging stereotypes of people who live with mental illness.

John Nugent will be at The Hitching Post Gift Shop at 2 Haven Street on Saturday, May 14th from 10-12 noon to share his experiences - come join the conversation!