Flying with Paper Wings

Reflections on Living with Madness

Sandy Jeffs (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2024 | 2nd edition
Spinifex Press (Verlag)
978-1-925950-94-6 (ISBN)

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Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat in 1953. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and out of institutional care for 15 years, including at the infamous Larundel Psychiatric Hospital. Sandy was among the first to start speaking publicly about living with a mental illness, and much of her writing - including eight volumes of poetry - has been about her struggle to live a full life. She is well-known as a community educator, speaking to doctors and psychiatrists, at community health centres, and educational institutions. She has been honoured in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, Her Place Women’s Museum, and with an OAM in 2020. This new and updated edition of Flying with Paper Wings offers insights into madness – medical, social, personal – as well as disturbing reflections on its causes and its care. It is also a story of how poetry can become a personal saviour in the face of nearly irresistible forces.

Sandy Jeffs OAM is a prize-winning poet and the author of eight collections including the bestselling collection Poems from the Madhouse, Blood Relations, The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness, The Mad Poet’s Tea Party and The Poetics of a Plague which documents the COVID-19 Melbourne lockdowns. Her non-fiction includes the prize-winning Out of the Madhouse (with Margaret Leggatt). Sandy has been an advocate for people with mental illness for many years.

Foreword by Andrew Denton
Preface to the 2024 Edition
Preface to the 2009 Edition
Part One
Childhood, Girlhood, Youth 1953–1971
Part Two
Student Days 1972–1975
Part Three
Bats in the Belfry 1976–1993
Part Four
Into the Sunset 1993–2004
Part Five
Billowing Psychotic Fantasia May 2005
Afterword
Homecoming
Acknowledgements
References

Erscheinungsdatum	13.03.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
ISBN-10	1-925950-94-8 / 1925950948
ISBN-13	978-1-925950-94-6 / 9781925950946
Zustand	Neuware