num_pages: 256
description: An intimate exploration of mental disease draws on the author's manic depression experience and interviews with people who suffer from such conditions as multiple personality disorder, autism, and schizophrenia, evaluating what can be learned by the alternate perceptions inherent with each disease. By the author of Body Toxic. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
titlecomplete: A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
genres: Biography, Mental Illness, Disability, Science, Philosophy, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 185
publisher: Tarcher