‘Mental health emergency work is not pretty — it’s a hybrid of Dante’s Inferno, Narcos and The Golden Girls’

Dr Mark Cross
Dr Mark Cross.

Psychiatrist and TV presenter Dr Mark Cross knows the mental health system from both sides, as a clinician and a patient.

In his book Mental State, he is open about his own anxiety and the unvarnished reality of treating mental illness, especially at the pointy end that is emergency psychiatric care.