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Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness
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Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness
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Henry's Demons: A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness
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Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned his son had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Narrated by Patrick and Henry, this is the haunting, extraordinary story of the eight years he spent almost entirely in hospitals—and his family’s steadfast response to a bewildering condition.
Combining Patrick’s frank reporting of his son’s transformation from art student to mental patient with Henry's raw, eerily beautiful description of hearing trees and bushes speaking to him, voices compelling him to wander the countryside, the loneliness of life within hospital walls, and finally, his steps towards recovery,
is one of the most profoundly moving and revealing accounts of mental illness ever written.