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    Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, provides a holistic perspective on mental health and schizophrenia through a series of personal essays. Wang discusses her own diagnosis and experience living with schizophrenia. She analyzes the clinical definitions and language around mental illness. The essays also trace the impact of mental illness through Wang's family history and examine cultural depictions. Overall, the collection offers an artful, informative work that lays bare the experience of living with schizophrenia.

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    Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, provides a holistic perspective on mental health and schizophrenia through a series of personal essays. Wang discusses her own diagnosis and experience living with schizophrenia. She analyzes the clinical definitions and language around mental illness. The essays also trace the impact of mental illness through Wang's family history and examine cultural depictions. Overall, the collection offers an artful, informative work that lays bare the experience of living with schizophrenia.

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    Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, provides a holistic perspective on mental health and schizophrenia through a series of personal essays. Wang discusses her own diagnosis and experience living with schizophrenia. She analyzes the clinical definitions and language around mental illness. The essays also trace the impact of mental illness through Wang's family history and examine cultural depictions. Overall, the collection offers an artful, informative work that lays bare the experience of living with schizophrenia.

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    Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias (2019)

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    Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, provides a holistic perspective on mental health and schizophrenia through a series of personal essays. Wang discusses her own diagnosis and experience living with schizophrenia. She analyzes the clinical definitions and language around mental illness. The essays also trace the impact of mental illness through Wang's family history and examine cultural depictions. Overall, the collection offers an artful, informative work that lays bare the experience of living with schizophrenia.

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    The document discusses two books - The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang and The Book of Delights by Ross Gay. The Collected Schizophrenias is a collection of essays that takes a personal and analytical look at living with schizophrenia, while The Book of Delights focuses on finding moments of delight through daily observations and experiences.

    The Collected Schizophrenias covers various aspects of schizophrenia including the clinical definition, Esmé Weijun Wang's personal diagnosis and experience, the language used to describe mental health, tracing mental illness in her family, and depictions of mental illness in culture.

    Esmé Weijun Wang describes living with schizophrenia as affecting her daily life and relationships. She discusses arming herself against reactions by emphasizing her education and fashion. She also traces mental illness in her family tree.

    ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG, THE COLLECTED

    SCHIZOPHRENIAS (2019)
    Esmé Weijun Wang’s collection of essays is a kaleidoscopic look at mental
    health and the lives affected by the schizophrenias. Each essay takes on a
    different aspect of the topic, but you’ll want to read them together for a
    holistic perspective. Esmé Weijun Wang generously begins The Collected
    Schizophrenias by acknowledging the stereotype, “Schizophrenia terrifies. It
    is the archetypal disorder of lunacy.” From there, she walks us through the
    technical language, breaks down the Diagnostic and Statistical
    Manual (DSM-5)’s clinical definition. And then she gets very personal,
    telling us about how she came to her own diagnosis and the way it’s touched
    her daily life (her relationships, her ideas about motherhood). Esmé Weijun
    Wang is uniquely situated to write about this topic. As a former lab
    researcher at Stanford, she turns a precise, analytical eye to her experience
    while simultaneously unfolding everything with great patience for her reader.
    Throughout, she brilliantly dissects the language around mental health. (On
    saying “a person living with bipolar disorder” instead of using “bipolar” as
    the sole subject: “…we are not our diseases. We are instead individuals with
    disorders and malfunctions. Our conditions lie over us like smallpox
    blankets; we are one thing and the illness is another.”) She pinpoints the ways
    she arms herself against anticipated reactions to the schizophrenias: high
    fashion, having attended an Ivy League institution. In a particularly piercing
    essay, she traces mental illness back through her family tree. She also places
    her story within more mainstream cultural contexts, calling on
    groundbreaking exposés about the dangerous of institutionalization and
    depictions of mental illness in television and film (like the infamous Slender
    Man case, in which two young girls stab their best friend because an invented
    Internet figure told them to). At once intimate and far-reaching, The
    Collected Schizophrenias is an informative and important (and let’s not
    forget artful) work. I’ve never read a collection quite so beautifully-written
    and laid-bare as this. –Katie Yee, Book Marks Assistant Editor
    ROSS GAY, THE BOOK OF
    DELIGHTS (2019)
    When Ross Gay began writing what would become The Book of Delights, he
    envisioned it as a project of daily essays, each focused on a moment or point
    of delight in his day. This plan quickly disintegrated; on day four, he skipped
    his self-imposed assignment and decided to “in honor and love, delight in
    blowing it off.” (Clearly, “blowing it off” is a relative term here, as he still
    produced the book.) Ross Gay is a generous teacher of how to live, and this
    moment of reveling in self-compassion is one lesson among many in The
    Book of Delights, which wanders from moments of connection with strangers
    to a shade of “red I don’t think I actually have words for,” a text from a
    friend reading “I love you breadfruit,” and “the sun like a guiding hand on
    my back, saying everything is possible. Everything.”
    Gay does not linger on any one subject for long, creating the sense that
    delight is a product not of extenuating circumstances, but of our attention; his
    attunement to the possibilities of a single day, and awareness of all the small
    moments that produce delight, are a model for life amid the warring factions
    of the attention economy. These small moments range from the physical–
    hugging a stranger, transplanting fig cuttings–to the spiritual and
    philosophical, giving the impression of sitting beside Gay in his garden as he
    thinks out loud in real time. It’s a privilege to listen. –Corinne Segal, Senior
    Editor

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