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The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian

The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian

Craig, Brody Parrish

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 163243153X
ISBN13: 9781632431530
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: Nov 6 2024
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
A poetry collection that questions the current construction of psychiatric treatment while speaking through lived experience and advocating for disability justice.

The poems of Brody Parrish Craig's new collection upends narratives around current psychiatric treatment models to focus on the lived experience of survivors and to speak toward liberation, abolition, and disability justice. Titled after the author's own medical records, The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian questions the prevailing narrative that the medical industry knows stories of disability and madness better than those who have lived them.

Craig uses lyricism to expose the intersection of madness and criminality in contemporary American culture, moving through institutions, community spaces, and loss of kin. Through the course of the collection, the speaker turns toward irreverence and interrogation, carves out their own freedom, and challenges the script of the patient, the mad, and the criminal. These poems deconstruct the patient to set the person free.

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