Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned his son had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Narrated by Patrick and Henry, this is the haunting, extraordinary story of the eight years he spent almost en
| Title | : | Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (469 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439154716 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-4-6 |
| Language | : | English |
Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned his son had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Narrated by Patrick and Henry, this is the haunting, extraordinary story of the eight years he spent almost entirely in hospitals—and his family’s steadfast response to a bewildering condition. Combining Patrick’s frank reporting of his son’s transformation from art student to mental patient with Henry's raw, eerily beautiful description of hearing trees and bushes speaking to him, voices compelling him to wander the countryside, the loneliness of life within hospital walls, and finally, his steps towards recovery, Henry's Demons is one of the most profoundly moving and revealing accounts of mental illness ever written.. Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, “intimate and authoritative…outstanding double memoir” (The New York Times Book Review)about schizophrenia written by an eminent journalist and his son. On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into an estuary outside Brighton, England and nearly drowned
When Cockburn, a foreign correspondent for the Independent on assignment in Afghanistan, learns his 20-year-old son, Henry, has been institutionalized after trying to drown himself, he tries to understand why his son has had a mental breakdown. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. The Cockburns, a tightly knit family, are severely tested by the pressures of a loved one undone by his mind and locked away for seven years in a mental hospital. From Publishers Weekly This sensitive story of a family's battle with schizophrenia looks at the ignorance and stigma that often accompany any mention of mental illness. All rights reserved. . Told in alternate views, both father and son write candidly of the illness, medications, and numerous hospitalizations, along with harrowing descriptions of visions and voices. This straightforwaThe author reports a conversation he had with the director of a non-profit group that works with such families. Henry is a talented artist and the way he talks about his communication with trees and other living things evokes a magical if clearly often frightening world.. This will definitely get you in the Christmas spirit!. She goes after it all and it's a story that needs to be told in full just as it is here. The most recent ones seem to have things in better perspective, looking at the Vincent as a classic design, and a machine that needs to be maintained and kept in top shape for it to give its best. The truth is that a newly diagnosed schizophrenic faces several years of in-house therapy and years more of half-way houses or sheltered living arrangements. I am so glad that the authors wrote this book. It's way too much info for the average person to remember in detail months or years later, so I review concepts in this book often. As such, Diet For A Dead Planet is a bit of a polemic and firmly in the camp of other books critical of the relationship between agricultural economics and modern food production, such as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. The components of TIR, including
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