Goodreads asked Nic Compton:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Nic Compton I've always been interested in psychology (who isn't?) and was delighted to find a 1980s book called The Psychology of Sailing. I worked up a proposal for an updated version of that book, but the chapter that stoop out was the one on madness, so I reworked the proposal around that – and then it began to sing! And thus Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea was born.

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