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The Collected Schizophrenias
[Paperback - 2019]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Essays
Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780141991535 | Pages: 224
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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.

Esmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker, as well as a journalist and essayist.The Border of Paradiseis her first novel. Just announced as the winner of the 2016 Graywolf Press Non-Fiction Prize for her book of essays,The Collected Schizophrenias. She lives in San Francisco.

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