Sons of madness
Subtitle: growing up and older with a mentally ill parent
By: Susan L. Nathiel
Publisher: Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781440804281; 9781440804298
Subjects: Mentally ill; Family relationships; Children of the mentally ill; Mental health; Adult children of dysfunctional families
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : "sons of madness": a club nobody would join if they had a choice; title: Acknowledgments; title: Mike: "Nobody cared until my family was destroyed."; title: David: "My mother's lobotomy saved my life."; title: Patrick: "Dad was like a dark shadow."; title: Mark: "If you leave the house you'll be murdered."; title: Ben: "our family code : protect dad at all costs."; title: Thomas: "she must have hundreds of cuts on her body."; title: Brian: "Just understand your father, for my sake."; title: Robert: "I called them the "nightly shows" - all violence."; title: Tim: "Mom painted her bedroom midnight blue"; title: Josh "It was emotional incest. mom said, "what's wrong with that?""; title: Randall: "My first memory? her trying to strangle me."; title: Christopher: "I should have been able to save her."; title: Conclusions.