Understanding Anyone with a serious emotional or psychiatric problem needs to have access to accurate and understandable information about the problem and its psychological and physiological mechanisms. Anyone with such a problem also needs to know what can be done to fix things or at least make things better. Fear and shame make it hard for people to understand emotional and psychiatric disorders and lack of understanding increases suffering. The text of each Shrink-Rap books is simple and accurate and we have linked it very closely with the drawings to illuminate emotions and to bring to life the complex interactions involved in psychiatric difficulties. Pain and fear create a narrow and gloomy cage for the mind and emotions.
Cartoons have a special way of bending the bars and aiding and abetting escape from that cage.
Once out, anything can happen. It's a priviledge to do this work. Thanks, Mr McKay. Enjoy the books. Some words from Chris Wever I am a child psychiatrist who found it easier and more useful to write books for children than scientific papers, though I have produced some of these along the way.