My Mysterious Son (eBook)

A Life-Changing Passage between Schizophrenia and Shamanism

Dick Russell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
432 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2901-8 (ISBN)

Infos

“My Mysterious Son is a touching story about a father’s passionate attempt to connect with his son, diagnosed with mental illness. Dick Russell’s background as an investigative journalist allows him to capably explore the mystery of psychosis. He skillfully guides us through the expanded sense of reality that so often accompanies schizophrenia.”



—Dr. Joseph Polimeni, author of Shamans Among Us: Schizophrenia, Shamanism, and the Evolutionary Origins of Religion

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What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a ';normal' life? That's the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years he spent time in and out of various hospitals, and even went through periods of adamantly denying that Dick was actually his father. A mixed-race child, Franklin was handsome, intelligent, and sensitive until his mental illness suddenly took control. After spending the ensuing years trying to build some semblance of a normal father-son relationship, Dick was invited with his son, out of the blue, to witness the annual wildlife migration on Africa's Serengeti Plain. Seizing this potential opportunity to repair the damage that both had struggled with, after going through two perilous nights together in Tanzania, ultimately the two-week trip changed both of their lives. Desperately seeking an alternative to the medical model's medication regimen, the author introduces Franklin to a West African shaman in Jamaica. Dick discovers Franklin's psychic capabilities behind the seemingly delusional thought patterns, as well as his artistic talents. Theirs becomes an ancestral quest, the journey finally taking them to the sacred lands of New Mexico and an indigenous healer. For those who understand the pain of mental illness as well the bond between a parent and a child, My Mysterious Son shares the intimate and beautiful story of a father who will do everything in his power to repair his relationship with a young man damaged by mental illness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 26 color photographs; 1 b&w photograph; 4 color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: Academic Success • alcohol nicotine • antipsychotic drugs • Archetypal Psychology • Bipolar Disorder • broken mind • brutally honest • California Law • crippling mental • death sentence • deeper understanding • Drug Rehab • elyn saks • experiencing mental • Fulfilling Life • Health Care • health field • Health law • Health Professionals • Health system • Helen Keller • Human Mind • intelligent woman • jung institute • law professor • Law School • life despite • life journey • live independently • Marshall Scholarship • mental conditions • Mental disorders • Mental Health • mental hospitals • mental illnesses • mentally ill • normal personality • paranoid schizophrenia • person suffering • physical restraints • productive life • psychiatric patients • psychology psychiatry • psychotic break • psychotic episodes • psychotic illness • Role model • Schizoaffective Disorder • schizophrenic mind • serious mental • severe mental • severe psychiatric • Southern California • supportive friends • talk therapy mental patients • tanzania hospit • tenured law • torrey • understand mental • woman's journey • yale law
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-2901-1 / 1510729011
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2901-8 / 9781510729018