With the skill of a gifted novelist, twenty-three-year-old Whitney Robinson recounts the harrowing true story of her descent into mental illness soon after she arrived at college. Her doctor labeled the illness schizophrenia, but Whitney felt that she became possessed by a malevolent, seductive entity that attempted to influence her into harming herself and others.
Institutionalized and heavily medicated, Whitney encounters other horrors and mysteries within the walls of a psychiatric hospital. Determined to release herself from pharmacological shackles, Whitney finally confronts and expels her demon through sheer will and alternative methods, including an attempted exorcism and shamanic healing.
Whitney's saga parallels current discussions in the media regarding American psychiatry's dependence on drug-based treatments and the renewed interest in alternative healing methods of eastern and indigenous cultures, which, according to a recent New York Times article "The Americanization of Mental Illness," have been revealed to be at least as effective as pharmaceutically driven treatments.
Whitney's story of survival and personal growth will serve as a living model for others.
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Compelling and engrossing Robinson is an accomplished writer with a poetic bent, a born storyteller.” Pamela Spiro Wagner, Divided Minds
If the past is any guide to the future, today we can be certain of only one thing: The day will come when people will look back at our current medicines for schizophrenia and the stories we tell to patients about their abnormal brain chemistry, and they will shake their heads in utter disbelief.” Robert Whitaker, Mad in America
'With a few brief flashbacks to her younger self in childhood, the reader sees through Robinson’s eyes how her situation developed and witnesses the thought patterns manifesting as she matures, attempting to logically describe the turmoil transpiring within her. The way Robinson describes the Other (the voice, as she calls it) shed a light for me on how a seemingly rational person is capable of having incredible irrational thoughts possibly leading to irrational actions. In other words, if you have ever wondered how a person with a conscience could actually do a heinous act, whatever act you can conjure in your mind that is the most cruel thing a human can do, this book will provide an answer and conscience really has naught to do with it." -The Divine Guide Within
Whitney Robinson grew up in Ware, Massachusetts, where she was home-schooled throughout her childhood. She majored in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and graduated in 2010. She currently lives in
Boston.
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