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 enlarge | Author: Richard Mclean
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 57889
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1865089745
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8980092
EAN: 9781865089744
ASIN: 1865089745
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Condition: Outstanding condition! Brand new! May have slight shelfwear. Clean, tight, and crisp!
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 A must read for anyone who is sufferer/friend/family of schizophrenia July 4, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
A must read for all friends, relatives and sufferers of what we term 'Mental Illness'. Richard has successfully given of his own experience with his struggle through schizophrenia in a unique and vivid manner. He draws upon his talent as an artist/musician and the resource of the internet chat lines for fellow sufferers points of view and comments on what it is like to experience a psychotic illness. His drawings express emotions and a state of mind which words can not.
Easy to read and unlike many other books on the subject the outlook for the sufferer is not all doom and gloom.
Richard's story is living proof that there is a recovered 'normal' life from schizophrenia.
Thankyou Richard as you have helped me immensely with my journey through schizophrenia.
Recovered, Not Cured June 25, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was an excellent tale of one individual's experience with schizophrenia. This book includes artwork from the author to help illustrate the kind of torment he experienced. I recommend this book to anyone interested in or experiencing schizophrenia.
Helpful and well put together March 2, 2006
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I read this book to get a better understanding of my brother, who is diagnosed schizophrenic and is obviously having a very hard time, though he rarely talks explicitly about what's happening to him. I was glad to stumble upon a book written by someone with schizophrenia (as opposed to a doctor or researcher). I think this 'inside view' has been really helpful in my coming to understand my brother better, so that I can be supportive towards him and catch warning signs of when he's entering a delusional episode.
I found this book to be very well written. It would likely be interesting even to people who don't have schizophrenic loved ones. The author has included his own artwork interspersed throughout the book as well as poems and notes he wrote while he was delusional. The artwork is very interesting, the poems and notes are a bit disturbing, as you'd expect.
It is heartening that though the author has a severe mental illness to deal with, he was able to put together such an excellent book.
 Recommended August 21, 2005
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book is excellent at showing what it is really like to be schizophrenic. Recommended for families and friends of people with schizophrenia so they will have some idea of what their loved one is going through.
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