The collected schizophrenias : essays

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Label

The collected schizophrenias : essays

Title remainder

essays

Statement of responsibility

Esmé Weijun Wang

Creator

• Wang, Esmé Weijun

Author

• Wang, Esmé Weijun

Subject

• Nonfiction
• Schizophrenia -- Case studies
• Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography
• Autobiography
• Wang, Esmé Weijun -- Mental health
• Essays

Genre

• Case studies
• Biography

Language

eng

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"--

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Publisher's description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

• 616.89/80092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC514

LC item number

.W236 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WM 203