Psych Murders by Stephanie Heit, Stephanie Heit

Psych Murders
Stephanie Heit, Stephanie Heit
Page: 128
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780814349878
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Psych Murders

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Stephanie Heit’s hybrid memoir poem blasts the page electric and documents her experience of shock treatment. Using a powerful mélange of experimental forms, she traces her queer mad bodymind through breathlessness, damage, refusal, and memory loss as it shifts in and out of locked psychiatric wards and extreme bipolar states. Heit survives to give readers access to this somatic, visceral rendering of a bipolar life complete with sardonic humor, while showing us the dire need for new paradigms of mental health care outside closets, attics, prisons, and wards. Psych Murders adds a vital layer of lived experience of electroshocks and suicidal ideation to the growing body of literature of madness and mental health difference.

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