Portraying a parent's experience of coming to terms with the new
and frightening world of mental health care, this narrative
explores the myriad foreign ways of diagnosis and treatment.
Written from a mother's perspective, the poetic sequence displays
the anguish and complexity of dealing with mental illness,
describing the events of an ordinary family--the numerous visits to
doctors, the treatments that don't work, and the people who
suddenly have answers and heartbreaking histories of their own to
tell. At the heart of the book lies an outstanding set of poems
about electroconvulsive therapy, leading up to a concluding
revelation that mental illness may have no solutions, but there are
ways of living with it. As stark and powerful as it is healing and
illuminating, this is a groundbreaking addition to the field of New
Zealand poetry.
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