The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her final years of training as a mental health practitioner, when trainee clinical psychologists find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares the remarkable cases of key patients and their treatment. Gripping, poignant and full of daring black humour, this book reveals the frightening and challenging induction faced by all mental health staff and highlights their incredible commitment to their patients. Tanya's relationships with the characters in this powerful, affecting book will break your heart and make you laugh out loud. Her patients desperately need her help but in the midst of their own vulnerability their kindness and wisdom help to shape Tanya into the confident practitioner she is today. This brave, honest memoir is about ordinary people and their amazing resilience to the challenges of life. It is also about the ones that can't be saved. In this way, The Skeleton Cupboard emphasises how there are damaged parts in all of us and secrets hidden in every life.