The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
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 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. An essay collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.
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Esmé Weijun Wang. (2019). The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays. Graywolf Press.
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Named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, Wang also received the Whiting Award for her nonfiction and the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for this collection of essays, which explores mental illness (also the subject of her novel, The Border of Paradise). Here she tracks being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, the consequences in her life, and the problem with labels generally, addressing both members of "the collected schizophrenias" like herself and those seeking understanding.
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