Learning from the Voices in My Head by Eleanor Longden
Category: Self Help
Rating: 4.3/5
Pages: 107
About Book:
Eleanor Longden was a college freshman when she started hearing voices in her head. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and checked into a psychiatric ward, Longden spent years trapped in a nightmare of hospitals and medications, pain and despair. Yet she survived. Her technique: to learn to listen to her internal narrators, not reject them. Now on the cusp of finishing her Ph.D. in psychology, Longden still hears voices â and she says she wouldnât live without them.
Part personal memoir and part medical argument, Learning from the Voices in My Head challenges societyâs definition of crazy. Longden calls for a new, nuanced understanding of voice hearing and urges us to see madness not as a condition, but as a process â one through which those who struggle with mental health issues have the chance to emerge with their sanity intact. Longdenâs story shows that there is, in the end, a message in the madness.
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Category: Self Help
Rating: 4.3/5
Pages: 107
About Book:
Eleanor Longden was a college freshman when she started hearing voices in her head. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and checked into a psychiatric ward, Longden spent years trapped in a nightmare of hospitals and medications, pain and despair. Yet she survived. Her technique: to learn to listen to her internal narrators, not reject them. Now on the cusp of finishing her Ph.D. in psychology, Longden still hears voices â and she says she wouldnât live without them.
Part personal memoir and part medical argument, Learning from the Voices in My Head challenges societyâs definition of crazy. Longden calls for a new, nuanced understanding of voice hearing and urges us to see madness not as a condition, but as a process â one through which those who struggle with mental health issues have the chance to emerge with their sanity intact. Longdenâs story shows that there is, in the end, a message in the madness.
