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AP English project on Schizophrenia

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KdashRoe

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Hi there,

So for my topic for AP English is Schizophrenia. We were allowed to choose any topic, and that's what I settled on.

The final result of this project is going to be a webpage. One of the requirements are that we read at least 6 books relating to our topic.

So if you have any suggestions for books that even lightly touch on the subject, they would be helpful.

Thanks a bunch!


KdashRoe.
 
"The Eden Express" is a book by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt's son. It's an interesting true story that involves schizophrenia and hippiness.
 
For fiction you could try Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind. I haven't read it, so I don't know how accurate a portrayal it is of the disorder.
 
I don't know if this one is full-on schizophrenia, but there's a short story called "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that is really good.
 
^^^I read "The Yellow Wallpaper" in English atthe beginning of this year. We had a whole discussion about whether or not the lady was just schizophrenic, if it was symbolism to the time period about how women were essentially "trapped" into a social standing and marriage or if it was about how she was just trying to escape herself.

But I guess that's just a little off topic, so I won't go any further.

Try something by Edgar Allen Poe. . ."The Tell-Tale Heart" might work. . .
 
The Centre Cannot Hold

The Centre Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks is a personal memoir telling of an American girl's struggle with schizophrenia from teenage years through to a successful professorship (in Psychiatry, what else).
A very readable book.
Bart.
 
I recommend The Divided Self and all other works by RD Laing. His theories revolutionized the conception of schizophrenia and his community for the treatment of schizophrenics makes a powerful case for a Patch Adams type of approach to treatment in a non-medical environment.
 
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