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Ron Powers: No one cares about crazy people (2017) 4 stars

"How did we, as a society, get to this point? It's a question that Pulitzer …

schizophrenia through the eyes of a parent

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Really good book about the experience of being a parent of someone with early onset schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. It weaves personal experience and the history/politics of mental illness in a way that's both enjoyable and informative.

It's a very good resource, but the author has certain perspectives about forced institutionalization and treatment that contradict the feelings/opinions of some people with schizophrenia.

If you're interested in neurodivergence in general or schizophrenia in particular this is a good book, but I'm hesitant to recommend it as the only book. I think that it's very important to get the perspective of someone with schizophrenia (like "The Collected Schizophrenias" by Esmé Weijun Wang or "The Center Cannot Hold" by Elyn R. Saks)