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The Becoming: A Memoir (Inanna Memoir Series) by Nicole author (Nicole M.) Luongo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Becoming: A Memoir (Inanna Memoir Series) about?
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. A lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates explosively after the author begins a PhD at the University of Oxford, and while in hospital she is liberated through psychosis. Her journey from terror to self-acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts bio-medical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, __The Becoming__ contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each of which asks, "What does it mean to be normal?" and "Should we be sane in an insane world?" “Gritty and courageous. Powerfully written. A compelling read.” —Helen Humphreys, author of The Evening Chorus “Vivid and at times lyrical in its storytelling, this memoir is a thought-provoking exposé and politicization of madness. It is clearly written and highly readable yet provides a depth of analysis not often
Who reads The Becoming: A Memoir (Inanna Memoir Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nicole author (Nicole M.) Luongo
- Publisher
- Inanna Memoir Series
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781771338158
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Memoir, Philosophy