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Henry's demons
What I’ve been reading (2011-02-16)

5. Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn, Henry's Demons: Living With Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story .  Interesting but never insightful (can I coin that as a new phrase?).  On the surface this book shows the difficulties of having a son with schizophrenia, from both the perspective of the parents and also in the son's own words.  In reality, it turned me (further) against the idea of forced institutionalization of an adult.  They lock the son up for years and they don't seem to regret it...

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