Passing for Normal A Memoir of Compulsion

Name: Passing for Normal A Memoir of Compulsion
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ISBN: 9780767901864

ISBN-10: 076790186X

ISBN-13: 9780767901864

Edition: N/A

Authors: Amy S. Wilensky

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I am crazy. But maybe I am not. For most of her life, these thoughts plagued Amy Wilensky as her mind lurched and veered in ways she didn't understand and her body did things she couldn't control. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal" life, she worried that beneath the surface she was a freak, that there was something irrevocably wrong with her. Passing for Normal is Wilensky's emotionally charged account of her lifelong struggle with the often misunderstood disorders Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. A powerful witness to her own dysfunction, Wilensky describes the strain it bore on her relationships with the people she thought she knew best:…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Prologue


Shades of Groucho


Bodies in Motion Stay in Motion


Passing for Normal


The Body/Mind Connection, or Lack Thereof


The Worse Before the Better


Seismic Shifts


And Then There Were Two


Coming to Terms


The Gift that Keeps on Giving


Afterword