Heavy light : a journey through mania, madness and healing
Clare, Horatio, 1973-2021
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Heavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing. After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.
Main title:
Heavy light : a journey through mania, madness and healing / Horatio Clare.
Author:
Clare, Horatio, 1973-, author
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781784743529 (hbk)1784743526 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.890092616.89
Language:
English
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BRN:
614441
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