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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).
Challenger Deep is a 2015 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman about a teenager's onset of schizophrenia.The story was based on his own son. [1] It won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and was placed on "Best of the Year" lists by Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, and the American Library Association.
Calvin won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. [1]Publishers Weekly called it "(f)unny, intellectual, and entertaining" and "a sensitive yet irreverent adventure about a serious subject", and noted the possibility that Susie's participation in Calvin's quest may be another hallucination. [2]
[28] [29] The first half of the book leaves the audience questioning if the plot is real, but it ends up being about mental illnesses. From the point of view of somebody with a mental illness. [30] The Suicide of Claire Bishop, 2015 novel by Carmiel Banasky. Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and suicide are main topics. [31]
Pages in category "Books about schizophrenia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Similar to what occurred in the novel, Greenberg was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At that time though, undifferentiated schizophrenia was often a vague diagnosis given to a patient or to medical records department for essentially non-medical reasons, which could have covered any number of mental illnesses from anxiety to depression.
Henry's perspective is also discussed; he is able to remember the real life situations he was in as well as the hallucinatory visions that accompanied them, and sees the whole experience of schizophrenia as being a matter of 'awakening' as much as an illness or disorder, and has been resistant to the use of anti-psychotic medication because he ...
The book served as inspiration for the song "Ypsilanti" on the Detroit band Protomartyr's debut album No Passion All Technique. [6] The book also served as the inspiration for the memory play Trinity by Gary C. Hopper with music by Tim Kloth. [7] The title is also mentioned in Anne Sexton's poem 'Rapunzel' in her 1971 book Transformations.