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Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9781565847866
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1565847865
Label: New Press
Manufacturer: New Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2002-10
Publisher: New Press
Studio: New Press
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A compelling collection of family photographs and moving first-person narratives about people living with mental illness.
One in five Americans has a mental illness. Nothing to Hide, a stunning tribute to the millions of families for whom mental illness is a part of everyday life, juxtaposes first-person accounts with beautifully reproduced duotone photographs of 44 families who defy the stigma of mental illness to speak for themselves about their lives, their illnesses, and their struggles to get well.
Each family in the book is portrayed in two ways: Photographs capture the members together and, often, singly or in pairs. Individual statements—usually one from each person in the family—complete the family picture by telling the story from various points of view. The families, different in many ways, have in common an ongoing struggle with illnesses ranging from schizophrenia and bipolar illness to obsessive compulsive disorder and major depression. These open and candid stories show us that the mentally ill and their families have much in common with the rest of us. They can be found in every community of America, and represent the full range of our economic, racial, and ethnic diversity. Only a small percentage of the mentally ill live with caretakers or in treatment centers.
In her foreword, MacArthur Award-winning author and psychologist Kay R. Jamison calculates the enormous costs of stigmatizing the mentally ill. And an introduction by Kenneth Duckworth, medical director for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, details our current understanding of mental illness. The book concludes with a moving personal essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Dave Maraniss. 78 duotone photographs.
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Rating: - Essential Reading
Nothing to Hide is one of the most important books I've read. As an advocate for people with mental illnesses ('consumers'), and one myself, I believe this book is an essential tool for understanding mental illness: The firsthand experience, how it affects families and friends, the battles for justice and against stigma, and consumers' pervasive courage, humor and grace in the face of despair. Who to speak better about these issues than those directly affected?
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