Psych Murders

Psych Murders - Made in Michigan Writers Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780814349878
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.6
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230610
Language: English
Number of pages: 135
Weight: 363g
Height: 203mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 12mm