Road Back from Schizophrenia A Memoir

Name: Road Back from Schizophrenia A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781616088712

ISBN-10: 1616088710

ISBN-13: 9781616088712

Edition: 2012

Authors: Arnhild Lauveng

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For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng’s own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. She paints a surreal world—sometimes full of terror and sometimes of…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 5.80" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Arnhild Lauveng studied at the University of Oslo, and now works as a clinical psychologist. She is a successful Norwegian author and a popular speaker. She was awarded the Mental Health Prize in 2004 for her openness in discussing her battle with mental illness.



Foreword


Stories of Confusion


Fog, dragons, blood, and iron


Loneliness in a blue-white dress


Deprived language, distressed language


What is left


Stories of Systems


Love roses and professional shards


The Saturday of the Orangemartyr


Poetry without pajamas


The horse is an ungulate


Stories of Change


Travel companion


Canes, crutches, and fences


Stop the worldï¿½I want to get back on!


Gray as sheep, golden as a lion


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