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Title: Welcome, Silence: My Triumph over Schizophrenia by Carol S., M.D. North ISBN: 0-671-52834-3 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: June, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Breathtaking
Comment: I've always been torn over what I want to do with my education, but after reading this book I'm positve. Med school. On to psychiatry I go, and I have this book to thank for helping me make up my mind. The story of Carol North is gripping, you feel for her, and you don't really think of her as 'insane' as you read. I recommend this book. Don't just check it out from the library, buy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent book
Comment: This is an outstanding story of Dr. North's struggle with schizophrenia and recovery. It is quite intense reading. Of course the ending is very dramatic.
It seems to me that there are a few things Dr. North did which contribute to the skepticism with which some people view her account. First, she changed names and other identifying details so that facts are difficult to verify. Second, she told the story in fairy-tale format, with dramatically worsening symptoms followed by miraculous cure with few details of life after recovery. Third, she chose not to have any other medical doctors involved with this book. If her psychiatrist had written an introduction and the doctor who proformed the dialysis had written an afterword, the story would have been better documented.
Finally, it seems to me that adjusting to being "normal" after spending one's formative years seriously mentally ill would be a major struggle in itself. I hope she follows up someday with "my life after schizophrenia" and includes real names and places.
Even with these caveats, it's a wonderful book that deserves five stars, in my opinion.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dr. Arabasz is Mistaken
Comment: Dr. North is not the first or the only one to pursue a successful career in spite of being afflicted by a severe mental illness. Dr. Frederick J. Frese, a psychologist who for many years headed a department in a well-known mid-western university, and made the videotape "Surviving in the World of Normals" (Wellness Productions) is another mental health professional whose account should be experienced. Unlike North, Frese admits that he is still coping with the illness. Colleagues of North have admitted, privately, that she still experiences visual difficulties when under stress. I suspect that her physicians hit upon dialysis as a way of convincing her that she was cured. Like diabetes, schizophrenia does not vanish. It's sad that society is so unready to accept the idea that people can cope with mental illness while living productive lives.
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Title: The Quiet Room : A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett ISBN: 0446671339 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan ISBN: 0394713788 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Voices of Robby Wilde by Elizabeth Kytle, Robert Coles ISBN: 0820317152 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living in the Labyrinth : A Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimer's by Diana McGowin ISBN: 0385313187 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook for Family, Friends, and Caregivers by Rebecca Woolis, Agnes Hatfied ISBN: 0874776953 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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