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This groundbreaking book sets the stage for revolutionizing how mental health is perceived in the legal profession and beyond. It contains a series of candid and courageous memoirs by members of the legal profession living with mental health and addiction issues.
Publication Language: English
Published: April 26, 2024
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
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The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in The Legal Profession is a groundbreaking book that sets the stage for revolutionizing how mental health is perceived in the legal profession and beyond. It contains a series of candid and courageous memoirs by members of the legal profession living with mental health and addiction issues. The authors are judges, lawyers, and law professors with wide-ranging legal practices in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario including at Bay Street and small boutique firms.
Young lawyers and senior members of the profession share their experiences of working while living with various types of challenges – depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, addiction, grief, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism.
The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in The Legal Profession addresses the insidious nature of mental health stigma and isolation in the legal community. But it is fundamentally a book about hope. As the authors discuss their sometimes harrowing journeys, they also show routes back to meaningful engagement with colleagues and work.
To read these personal accounts is to be moved, inspired, and hopefully galvanized into action at the individual, collegial, and organizational level. This book offers practical solutions to change the culture of legal practice and beyond so as to bust apart stigma and isolation, foster people getting the support they need, and cultivate more diverse workplaces.
Contributors
David S. Goldbloom
The Honourable George R. Strathy
The Honourable Michele Hollins
Beth Beattie
Carole Dagher
Thomas Telfer
Katherine Cooligan
Orlando Da Silva
Michael R. Ferguson
Michael Herman
Aidan Johnson
Imran Kamal
Ryan Middleton
Yadesha Satheaswaran
Leslie Anne St. Amour
Dan Stein
Courtney Wilson
Leena Yousefi
Brett D.M. Jones
Shayan Imran
M. Ishrat Husain
Foreword – David S. Goldbloom
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