The Unfragile Mind by Gavin Francis review – a GP’s guide to mental health

Powerful case studies can’t make up for this book’s superficiality when it comes to the broader issues ‘We are today in need of more humility in how we frame geographies of the mind,” says Gavin Francis, a GP and travel writer. In his new book he attempts to combine both disciplines as he treks the uncanny topography of mental illness. The journey is divided into chapters that explore various genres of human anguish – clinical anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder, depression and psychosis – as w...

By Tim Clare