Practicing Mental Illness

Practicing Mental Illness is a guide to using meditation, movement, and meaningful work to help manage affective disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety.

Not a typical book on mindfulness, it acknowledges where mindfulness practices, as taught today, can be helpful, and where methods and teachings in popular mindfulness can be very damaging to people with mental illness. George Hofmann has written a subversive self-help book which acknowledges that our society’s lo…