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The right not to remain silent : the truth about mental health in the legal profession
Title
The right not to remain silent : the truth about mental health in the legal profession / Beth Beattie, Carole Dagher & Thomas G.W. Telfer, editors.
ISBN
9780433532101
0433532106
Publication
North York, Ontario : LexisNexis, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
xxii, 153 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This is a book of essays written by legal professionals (including lawyers, judges and law professors) with lived mental health experience and includes a chapter written by a mental health professional about the diagnosis and treatment of depression, which is the most common mental illness. Contributors are from a wide range of geographical backgrounds including Bay Street and small towns. They come from British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The authors and contributors will share their experiences of working in the legal profession while dealing with various types of mental illness including depression, anxiety, bipolarity, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, eating disorders and other mental health conditions. Some of the contributors will share their experiences with imposter syndrome and perfectionism both of which are prevalent among legal professionals. The difficult topic of suicidal ideation will be discussed with compassion."-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Online version: Right not to remain silent. North York, Ontario : LexisNexis, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 06, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Chapter 1. It's time to change the culture of legal practice / The Honourable George R. Strathy
Chapter 2. What is happening to me? / The Honourable Michele Hollins
Chapter 3. To tell or not to tell? that is the question: revealing mental health issues at work / Beth Beattie
Chapter 4. Reconciling the visible and invisible me: my professional journey to living my authentic self / Carole Dagher
Chapter 5. Crisis? What crisis? Encounters with the mental health care system / Thomas Telfer
Chapter 6. Life lessons through lawyering and grief / Katherine Cooligan
Chapter 7. Please mom. Don't tell anyone / Orlando Da Silva
Chapter 8. Practising openness where everyone knows everyone / Michael R. Ferguson
Chapter 9. Depression: my journey through darkness / Michael Herman
Chapter 10. Un appel d'air: my journey in trauma-informed law so far / Aidan Johnson
Chapter 11. Lawyers can be addicts too / Imran Kamal
Chapter 12. Stop suffering in silence: ending the stigma of mental illness / Ryan Middleton
Chapter 13. Scratching the surface of OCD: the realities of living with skin-picking disorder / Yadesha Satheaswaran
Chapter 14. I'm really glad you're still here / Leslie Anne St. Amour
Chapter 15. More than a lawyer / Dan Stein
Chapter 16. Eating disorders and the legal profession: harsh realities and complexities / Courtney Wilson
Chapter 17. Not good enough / Leena Yousefi
Chapter 18. Emerging treatments for depression / Brett D.M. Jones, Shayan Imran & M. Ishrat Husain
Appendix: Canadian mental health resources for the legal profession.
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