I am not me: what is depersonalization and how to live with it. Simeon D., Abugel J.

Some people feel divorced from their “I”, and the world around it seems unrealistic to them, as if their life is happening with someone else. This condition is called depersonalization, it is poorly understood and difficult to diagnose. It is known that it can cause an experienced trauma or severe stress, but in Russia there are very few specialists who work with this disorder and can treat it. The book of the American psychiatrist Daphni Simeon and Australian journalist Jeffrey Abugel, who has been living with depersonalization for the first time published in Russian, describes in detail the clinical signs, the history of research, the theory of pathogenesis and methods of therapy for dispensional disorder. The work of the authors is based on the knowledge accumulated by the Mount-Sinai Medicine School and the British Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.

The book that doctors need, because without a scientific evidence-based basis, high-quality diagnosis and treatment of depersonalization is impossible.

the book that patients need, because a person with a mental disorder needs to know that he is not the only one in his strange, incredible universe.

a book that relatives and friends of patients with depersonalization needs.