How we got Barb back the story of my sister's reawakening after 30 years of schizophrenia
Margaret Hawkins shares the story of her sister Barbara's struggle with schizophrenia and her parents' decision to care for her undiagnosed at their Chicago home for thirty years, and discusses how the situation changed after their parents died and Margaret, as guardian, sought the help Ba...
| Main Author: | Hawkins, Margaret, 1954- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Francisco, CA :
Conari Press/Red Wheel/Weiser,
2010.
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| Summary: |
Margaret Hawkins shares the story of her sister Barbara's struggle with schizophrenia and her parents' decision to care for her undiagnosed at their Chicago home for thirty years, and discusses how the situation changed after their parents died and Margaret, as guardian, sought the help Barbara needed to deal with the mental illness. |
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| Physical Description: |
249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781573244770 1573244775 |
| Author Notes: |
Margaret Hawkins teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was an art critic for the Chicago SunTimes for more than two decades. She is also a Chicago correspondent for ARTnews . Her essays have appeared in a variety of national publications. Her debut novel, A Year of Cats and Dogs , published last year to strong reviews and her new novel, How to Survive a Natural Disaster , publishes this fall. Carolyn S. Spiro, MD is a coauthor of Divided Minds . |