Title: A mind apart : travels in a neurodiverse world /
Authors: Antonetta, Susanne, 1956-
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological; Creativeness [MESH]; Evolution [MESH]; Hominidae [MESH]; Mental Disorders [MESH]; Sociobiology [MESH]
Abstract: In A Mind Apart, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience with manic depression, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and other "neuroatypical" conditions, to construct a fascinating portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly different from the norm. As with her previous book, which Michael Pollan praised in the New York Times Book Review as "a challenge to our prevailing notions of science and journalism and even literary narrative," A Mind Apart employs a unique fusion of literary genres to draw readers into the experience of people with neurological conditions and to consider what their alternate ways of perceiving may, in fact, have to teach us. --Publisher.
Contents: The Human Road -- Dreaming -- I Am the Name It Had -- Ship of Fools -- Hearing Voices -- Among the Beautiful Crows -- Pandemonium on Zombie Earth -- Paradise Earth -- Accidentals -- Language Garden.