Henry's Demons - A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness (Paperback)

Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, intimate and authoritative...outstanding double memoir (The New York Times Book Review) about schizophrenia written by an eminent journalist and his son.
On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into an estuary outside Brighton, England and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned his son had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Narrated by Patrick and Henry, this is the haunting, extraordinary story of the eight years he spent almost entirely in hospitals--and his family's steadfast response to a bewildering condition.
Combining Patrick's frank reporting of his son's transformation from art student to mental patient with Henry's raw, eerily beautiful description of hearing trees and bushes speaking to him, voices compelling him to wander the countryside, the loneliness of life within hospital walls, and finally, his steps towards recovery, Henry's Demons is one of the most profoundly moving and revealing accounts of mental illness ever written.

General

Imprint:	Scribner Book Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Patrick Cockburn • Henry Cockburn
Dimensions:	223 x 143 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4391-5471-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-4391-5471-6
Barcode:	9781439154717

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