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The collected schizophrenias: essays

Esmé Weijun Wang
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
Copyright:
©2019

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Summary:
"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang's analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative"--Publisher's description.
Table of Contents:
  • Diagnosis
  • Toward a pathology of the possessed
  • High-functioning
  • Yale will not save you
  • The choice of children
  • On the ward
  • The slender man, the nothing, and me
  • Reality, on-screen
  • John Doe, psychosis
  • Perdition days
  • L'appel du vide
  • Chimayó
  • Beyond the hedge.
Author/Creator:
Wang, Esmé Weijun , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
The collected schizophrenias: essays [by Wang, E.W.]
Other Related Resources:
Online version: Collected schizophrenias [by Wang, E.W.] (Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019] — ISBN 9781555978761; OCLC Number 1084726254)
Subjects:
Wang, Esmé Weijun — Mental health
Schizophrenics — United States — Biography
Schizophrenia — Case studies
Schizophrenia
Genres:
Nonfiction novels
Essays
Personal narratives
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, 2016
Physical Description:
202 pages ; 21 cm
Call Numbers:
RC514 .W236 2019
ISBNs:
9781555978273 (paperback)
1555978274 (paperback)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2018947092
OCLC Numbers:
1036099919