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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Recovered Not Cured : A Journey Through Schizophrenia
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'This very personal exploration of schizophrenia explores each stage, from the early signs and reactions from friends and family to seeking help and the challenges of recovery. McLean bravely shares his paranoid delusions and offers both a verbal and a visual experience by including digital artwork he created to help objectify and control his impulses and fears. As McLean relates his experiences step by step, issues of sexuality, identity, and drug abuse are discussed, along with the overarching issues relating to mental health and the medical profession. Messages from online posters who either have suffered from mental illness or have cared for the mentally ill are included throughout, adding more perspectives to the author's personal experiences. This powerful combination of words and pictures provides a unique and poignant insight into a hidden, internal world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Schizophrenia.
    Type of character Primary (autobiographical).
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2003 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 180p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 1865089745

Works about this Work

Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 48 no. 1 2004; (p. 28)

— Review of Recovered Not Cured : A Journey Through Schizophrenia Richard McLean , 2003 single work autobiography
Postcards from Over the Edge Anne Deveson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 May 2003; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Recovered Not Cured : A Journey Through Schizophrenia Richard McLean , 2003 single work autobiography
Postcards from Over the Edge Anne Deveson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 May 2003; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Recovered Not Cured : A Journey Through Schizophrenia Richard McLean , 2003 single work autobiography
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 48 no. 1 2004; (p. 28)

— Review of Recovered Not Cured : A Journey Through Schizophrenia Richard McLean , 2003 single work autobiography
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