Tag: Schizophrenic

Book Title:

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing.

Author(s): Horatio Clare.

Year: 2021.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Chatto & Windus.

Type(s): Hardcover, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Heavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.

After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act.

From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed – or not – by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.

Partly a tribute to those who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light’s beauty, power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that affect each and every one of us.

Book Title:

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Bloomsbury Revelations).

Author(s): Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of 20th Century thought and culture that preceded them – from Foucault, Lacan and Jung to Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller – this revolutionary analysis of the intertwining of desire, reality and capitalist society is an essential read for anyone interested in post-war continental thought.

Book Title:

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual.

Author(s): E. Fuller Torrey.

Year: 2019.

Edition: Seventh (7th).

Publisher: HarpPeren.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families, and mental health professionals.

In clear language, this much-praised and important book describes the nature, causes, symptoms, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and also explores living with it from both the patient’s and the family’s point of view. This new, completely updated seventh edition includes the latest research findings on what causes the illness, as well as information about the newest drugs for treatment, and answers the questions most often asked by families, consumers, and providers.

An indispensable guide for those afflicted by schizophrenia as well those who care for them, Surviving Schizophrenia covers every aspect of the condition and sheds new light on an often-misunderstood illness.

Book Title:

Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions).

Author(s): Chris Frith and Eve C. Johnstone.

Year: 2003.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: OUP Oxford.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Schizophrenia is the archetypal form of madness. Schizophrenia is a common disorder and has a devastating effect on sufferers and their families-patients typically hear voices in their heads and hold bizarre beliefs. The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarises the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between mind and brain.

Book Title:

The Collected Schizophrenias.

Author(s): Emse Weijun Wang.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Penguin.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that ‘spread like blood’, or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you’re aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it?

Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang’s story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang’s analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.

Book Title:

Schizophrenia for Dummies.

Author(s): Jerome Levine.

Year: 2008.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Wiley.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder that afflicts one percent of the population, an estimated 2.5 million people in America alone. The firsthand advice in this reassuring guide will empower the families and caregivers of schizophrenia patients to take charge, offering expert advice on identifying the warning signs, choosing the right health professional, understanding currently available drugs and those on the horizon (as well as their side effects), and evaluating traditional and alternative therapies.

Book Title:

The Insanity Machine: Living With Paranoid Schizophrenia.

Author(s): Kenna McKinnon and Austin Mardon.

Year: 2017.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The Insanity Machine is an introspective look at life with paranoid schizophrenia. This book takes a clinical and observational look at the challenges presented by the condition.

Kenna discusses the definition of paranoid schizophrenia, treatments, living with the disorder, and many other topics surrounding schizophrenia. The Insanity Machine is a nonfiction story about our journey with schizophrenia, which is also well researched and suitable for therapists or family practitioners as a reference book.

The book includes the latest treatments and research, as well as personal vignettes and suggestions which a client or caregiver will find extremely helpful. The book focuses on hope and positive outcomes.