An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness
of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic
illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core.
Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme 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 institutionalisation 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. An essay
collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias
dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long
misunderstood.
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