Alexis Quinn: Unbroken

from her unluckily unique perspective a dark & expensive area of the NHS. This work provides a translation for most people who are unsure about what Autism is about. She clearly also describes the construction of psychiatric theories built on the sand of convention & the desire to serve the community (but hopelessly shot through with ignorance & misunderstanding). 
In contrast to the better financed physical medicine which has leapt forward with some focussed drugs and machines that are well proved solutions targeted at such areas as infectious disease.
Psychiatry has tried in its less favoured & poorly understood status to keep up . She demonstrates it is failing badly to listen & moderate its power in relation to its poorer certainty. This book is also serious critique of the way society gives the well meaning but over powerful the freedom to make expensive mistakes to protect us from OTHER (newly described tribes e.g. autistic’s).
A.Q. has written out her recent true diary of travelling hopefully in the foreign land of our psychiatric service & how sad it is she met so few friendly faces. Her exciting escape to Africa was her last alternative to relieve herself of bereavement & upset. Who would’ve thought it? There she after 3months of cold turkey ( from 7 Medications/14 tabs /day) she reclaimed motherhood, occupation & self respect. This after 3+ years of this official lack of human rights, bullying & cruelty. 
Amazingly this 3+ years “caring treatment” probably cost the tax payer in excess of £3 million that the needful NHS is crying out for. According to Government figures 5000 others, less able to write, share her experience so about £2 billion annually could be better used more appropriately by listening to the message of this significant book. Community services are really much cheaper & better but less able to hide if wrongheaded.

(David Forsythe, Nov 2018, review featured on and copied from Waterstone’s website)