Linda Gask
Linda Gask spent more than thirty years working as a psychiatrist despite personally experiencing recurring periods of anxiety and depression. She eventually became a professor of psychiatry at the University of Manchester.
Biography
Linda Gask spent more than thirty years working as a psychiatrist despite personally experiencing recurring periods of anxiety and depression. She eventually became a professor of psychiatry at the University of Manchester, has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation, and travelled far and wide, training health professionals in many different countries in how to listen and talk to people with mental health problems. She is passionate about reaching a wider audience in order to bust the stigma that continues to prevent people from getting the help they really need.
She lives in Orkney, off the North coast of Scotland.
Books
The Other Side Of Silence
THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE (Vie, 2015) is her highly acclaimed memoir, which weaves her own experience with that of her patients while giving an insight into some of the therapeutic answers for people suffering from depression. Her book shows it is possible to experience depression but still have a successful, happy life and build a career. Having mental illness does not mean you will fail and ironically it brings a perspective on what is important in life that others do not have.
Finding True North
Her wise and powerful memoir, FINDING TRUE NORTH: about her struggles with anxiety and depression and how finding your physical place in the world can help your mental space was released in April 2021.
Out of Her Mind
Linda’s next book OUT OF HER MIND about Feminism and Mental Health will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.