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The complications : on going insane in America / Emmett Rensin.
Van Pelt Library RC553.S34 R46 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rensin, Emmett, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rensin, Emmett--Mental health.
- Rensin, Emmett.
- Schizoaffective disorders--Patients--Biography.
- Schizoaffective disorders.
- Mental illness--United States.
- Mental illness.
- Mental health--United States.
- Mental health.
- Mentally ill women.
- Psychotic Disorders--history.
- Bipolar Disorder.
- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.
- Mental Health.
- United States.
- people with psychiatric illnesses.
- mental health.
- Patients.
- Autobiography.
- Mental disorders.
- Medical Subjects:
- Rensin, Emmett.
- Psychotic Disorders--history.
- Bipolar Disorder.
- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.
- Mental Health.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiography.
- autobiographies (literary works)
- autobiographies (literary genre)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 335 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
- Summary:
- Emmett Rensin shares a portrait of what it's like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a critique of America's mental health culture. Going beyond pure memoir, Rensin reflects on the uncertain "science" of diagnosis, the nature of art about and by the insane, political activism, and the history of madness, from the asylum to the academy.
- Contents:
- Foreword: The eight ball / Elizabeth Bruenig
- Part I. The weather
- The year of the four emperors
- Marlon
- Break
- Part II. Theories of the forms
- Titration diary
- Asylum
- Insight
- Part III. Disability studies
- The lunatic fringe
- Art therapy
- But it is embarrassing
- Part IV. Appalling strangeness
- Mullin
- Ordinary time
- Ghost stories
- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN:
- 9780063057227
- 0063057220
- OCLC:
- 1346951363
- Publisher Number:
- 90105182382
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