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Unsound: Reflections on a Life of Hearing Voices

Unsound: Reflections on a Life of Hearing Voices

Smith, Alison

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralMental Health

Publisher Price: $32.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 18, 2027

ISBN10: 1966302193
ISBN13: 9781966302193
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: May 18 2027
Pages: 380
Language: English

A gripping and deeply moving memoir by a lifelong voice hearer that explores the boundary between the imagined and the real, challenging the way we think about mental health treatment and our very understanding of consciousness.

At eighteen, after her beloved brother's death, which she described so poignantly in her award-winning memoir Name All the Animals, Alison Smith began hearing voices. Not the voice of God, as her deeply religious father regularly heard, but a buzzing presence that seemed to arrive from somewhere beyond her consciousness. The buzzing eventually evolved into full-fledged voices, entities that spoke to her and existed both separately and as a part of her. When a concerned college classmate brought Alison to the attention of the school psychologist, she was immediately institutionalized. Over the years there were many more hospitalizations, shifting diagnoses, powerful medications, and, always, the inner voices that served at once as sources of inspiration and comfort and as her most grueling tormentors.

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