Reissue of the 1958 classic true story of a woman\'s descent into schizophrenia and her journey back to sanity.
Buckley, National Review.
William F.
Laing, The Politics of Experience With penetration and satisfying imagery, Miss O\'Brien (a pseudonym) describes her psychosis, from which unaccountably and spontaneously she recovers.
R.
D.
Archives of General Psychiatry A beautifully lucid autobiographical description of a psychotic episode that lasted six months whose healing motion is clear.
Publishers Trade List Annual ...the author is contributing irreplaceably to our knowledge.
Phenomenological Sociology Brilliantly reveals what the unconscious is like.
Punch Striking autobiography.
Coevolution Quarterly Astonishing recollections.
This book is enthusiastically recommended.
She displays gut-wrenching humor and pungent metaphor with an eloquent, eminently readable style.
Her writing is delectable.
Her insight is penetrating and irresistible.
And at the end of her time of madness, she understands precisely what has been happening.
Publishers Weekly For six months she travels around the country on Greyhound buses, captive of the Operators, who push and pull, torment, confuse, and exhaust her.
Kirsch, Los Angeles Times An absorbing account of Life in the dream world of a schizophrenic.
Robert R.
O\'Brien has produced a work of brilliance and power, evoking a combination of Kafka and Joyce, with a touch of Orwell.
Reissue of the 1958 classic true story of a woman\'s descent into schizophrenia and her journey back to sanity
