A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

by Claire Phillips

Book Overview

A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.

Claire Phillips' elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733957901
• ISBN13: 9781733957908
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"