Tanya Byron. (2015). The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist. Flatiron Books.

Tanya Byron. 2015. The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist. Flatiron Books.

Tanya Byron, The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist. Flatiron Books, 2015.

Tanya Byron. The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist. Flatiron Books, 2015.

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   • bioText: TANYA BYRON is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality. She is a frequent public speaker and has appeared on countless British radio programs. She writes a weekly column for The Times (UK) and a monthly column for Good Housekeeping (UK). She advises on international policy relating to young people, mental health, and education, and is currently working in China to develop services for children and their families.
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The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind. In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron recounts the stories of the patients who most influenced her career as a mental health practitioner. Spanning her years of training—years in which Byron was forced her to contend with the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and confront a dark moment in her own family's past—The Skeleton Cupboard is a compelling and compassionate account of how much health practitioners can learn from those they treat. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be shown tenderness and compassion; Mollie, a talented teenager intent on starving herself; and Imogen, a twelve-year old so haunted by a secret that she's intent on killing herself. Byron brings the reader along as she uncovers the reasons each of these individuals behave the way they do, resulting in a thrilling, compulsively readable psychological mystery that sheds light on mental illness and what its treatment tells us about ourselves.

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   • source: Elyn R. Saks, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California and author of The Center Cannot Hold
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     "The Skeleton Cupboard is an engaging and compelling account of the training years of a clinical psychologist, Tanya Byron. In beautiful language, Byron tells the stories of several challenging patients, including a violent man, a severely anorexic girl, and a man dying of AIDS. She reveals her own concerns and struggles as she narrates others' stories, and focuses on these in her supervisory sessions with her brilliant yet difficult supervisor. She shows psychology at its best, really connecting with and helping its patients, while remaining mindful of the limitations that therapists necessarily have. In narrating these stories, Byron gives a window into the mind of her patients as well as her own mind. We come to understand, to sympathize, and to care."

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   • source: The Sunday Times (UK)
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   • source: Dr Brian Goldman, Emergency Physician and author, The Secret Language of Doctors

   • content: "Tanya Byron is a formidable writer. Her powerful stories from the front lines of clinical psychology will stay with me forever."
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     January 1, 2015
     A British mental health practitioner and media personality's absorbing account of the years she spent as a clinical psychologist-in-training.In 1989, Byron, then a graduate student at University College London, began the training necessary to qualify as a licensed clinical psychologist. Over the next three years, she worked in hospitals, clinics and private practices where she met individuals whose stories helped "to establish [her] thinking as a doctor." Among the most influential was her fierce, no-nonsense female mentor, Chris Moorhead. The author often found herself at bitter odds with this woman, who relentlessly pushed Byron to move beyond her own doubt and insecurity. The most compelling portraits, however, are those of the clients. In remembering the early days of her training, the author recalls the story of her first serious case, a man who seemed to be suffering from panic attacks but was actually a knife-wielding sociopath. This encounter, along with a case that soon followed involving a suicidal 12-year-old, terrified Byron and led to a temporary rupture with her mentor. While Chris refused to let Byron give in to her fears, she also refused to offer nurturing and support. In the meantime, the author fought to stay emotionally balanced and maintain her professional bearing around clients she especially loved, including a brilliant young anorexic woman struggling with an overly developed sense of responsibility for her parents and an AIDS-infected man trying to cope with his own imminent demise. Only gradually did the author learn to "put [her] own 'shit' aside" for the greater good. In the end, Byron realized that the inner journeys in which she participated with her clients were far more personal than she ever knew. By working with each person, she was in fact moving from "chaos to clarity" in her own mind and heart. A lucid and compassionate memoir.

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     February 1, 2015
     When she found her grandmother bludgeoned by a burglar, Byron, then 15, was thrust from libidinal teenager into a young woman who couldn't stop pondering a devastating question, Why do we kill those whom others love? She followed her question into a career as a clinical psychologist working with people with mental health difficulties. Now, nearly 25 years later, she highlights those cases she still thinks about todayImogen's, Martin Elise's, and morein a sometimes cheery, sometimes cheeky, but both troubling and touching narrative. With such titles as The Eyes Have It, Harold and the Nazis, and Dodging Stones, the tales she tells of disturbed souls often in tough situations are memorably related in a sparkling, youthful voice. As she notes, Often the key part of the journey from chaos to clarity is telling the story. Byron eventually helps not just many others but herself. Suggest this highly readable book to those considering the field of psychology or even just seeking a better understanding of what troubles the mind and what might be done for it.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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