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1875 Poet and lighthouse keeper, Phillis Monroe, deeply enjoys the solitude necessary to explore the spiritual and mystical side of life. She loves how her half sisters call her the mystic of Mystic, Connecticut. So why is she this eager to pursue the boxer from the Pequot reservation in Noank? Benjamin Baker, known as Awahsohs to his tribe in Noank, and as Bear to nearly every boxer from New York to Boston, is caught in a fight beside his uncle’s church. His mother and uncle send him away to the Brotherton Movement in upstate New York. But he doesn’t become the man of the cloth that ...

In Britain alone, more than 20 per cent of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500 per cent since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity. Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem.