[AppinIsobel]

Vancouver book launch today

for My Schizophrenic Life by Sandra Yuen MacKay

When: Saturday, October 2nd, 1:30 to 3 pm
Where: Vancouver General Hospital's Paetzold Education Centre
899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver BC
(when entering from the south entrance, walk north past the information desk and follow
the corridor)

"An important book (that) should be read by anyone wanting to understand how someone can recover from schizophrenia.

Sandra's autobiography offers a rare and sustained look into the challenges of living with schizophrenia. She lets us travel with her from the first early intrusions of paranoid delusions into her young teenage years to the long periods when the chaos of her illness
dominated her life."
　
ISBN 978-0-9810037-9-5, 206 pages, $19.95 US to be distributed by Ingram.

Published by Bridgeross

See http://.bridgeross.com for information on the complete book list offered by this small Canadian publisher.

[pachyderm]

Have you read The Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn Saks?

[AppinIsobel]

Originally Posted by pachyderm

Have you read The Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn Saks?

Yes, I've my own copy. Prof Saks writes a very honest and moving memoir.

I did post the reference below a while back but it's vanished into archived posts, I'd guess.

Keynote lecture by Professor Elyn R Saks, her diagnosis -- schizophrenia, stays on medication, now, married now in her 40's

Lecturing in Florence, Italy, April 2010

http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/fo.../swf/0001.html

Over 10 more slidecasts are available online from this meeting.

Watch the presentations by clicking on the speaker names at the Schizophrenia International Research Society website.

[pachyderm]

Originally Posted by AppinIsobel

Keynote lecture by Professor Elyn R Saks, her diagnosis -- schizophrenia, stays on medication, now, married now in her 40's

Stays on medication to be sure -- but she does not attribute the major part of the improvement in her life to medication, but to psychoanalysis.