This book examines work in several genres of life writing–autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction–focused either on what it means to l

Early in her life, Sandra started to exhibit the symptons of paranoid schizophrenia which came as a surprise to her unsuspecting family. Her book chronicles her

How do you write your life story when readers expect you not to make sense? How do you write a case history that makes sense when, face to face with schizophren

For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia

A father reflects on the rich life of his son, who died suddenly at twenty-six after living with schizophrenia. On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fras