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This is not the place to advertise your book. Any illegal content will be removed at the moderators' discretion. If you want to include a link in your suggestion we encourage you to link to the author's page or to an amazon alternative.ĭon't link to illegal content. Top level replies must be suggestions or question to clear up the request. Don't attack the requests or any suggestions made, and definitely do not attack or scold individual users (it's sad really, that we actually have to specifically say this.) No Meta posts about this or any other subreddit.No 'Should I read this book / is this book any good?' posts.Any submission with a link will be removed. Please use the text box to formulate your request in a clear and precise manner. Title-only posts will be summarily removed.IF YOU COME HERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ADVERTISING A BOOK, YOU WILL BE BANNED.įor book promotion please visit /r/wroteabook. Lauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness-not the illness incarnate.For general discussions about books please visit /r/books or /r/literature. Today, however, she calls herself a 'former schizophrenic,' has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist. When she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasized that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. She paints a surreal world-sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty-in which 'the Captain' rules her by the rod and the school's corridors are filled with wolves. 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. 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.

A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic.

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 powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them.

A road back from schizophrenia a memoir