My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir / Mark Lukach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukach, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lukach, Mark.

Lukach, Giulia--Mental health.

Lukach, Giulia.

Psychiatric hospital patients--Biography.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.

Mentally ill.

Husband and wife--Biography.

Husband and wife.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Marriage.

Local Subjects:

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Marriage.

Husband and wife--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

MEDICAL -- Mental Health.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. The fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 August 2000 1

2 July 2009 16

3 September 2009 46

4 October 2009 81

5 April 2010 111

6 August 2010 139

7 September 2011 154

8 October 2012 173

9 November 2012 202

10 April 2013 222

11 October 2014 242

12 November 2014 276.

Other Format:

Online version: Lukach, Mark, author. My lovely wife in the psych ward.

ISBN:

9780062422910

006242291X

OCLC:

962750162

Publisher Number:

99972821654