The collected schizophrenias : essays
(Book)
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019].
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
616.898 WANG
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616.898 WANG
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019].
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang's analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative"--,Publisher's description.