Name: Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (en Inglés)
SKU: 2565383
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Author: Amy S. Wilensky
ISBN: 9780767901864

portada Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (en Inglés)

Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Broadway Books

Autor

Amy S. Wilensky

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.45

ISBN

076790186X

ISBN13

9780767901864

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar

Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (en Inglés)

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I am crazy. But maybe I am not. For most of her life, these thoughts plagued Amy Wilensky as her mind lurched and veered in ways she didn't understand and her body did things she couldn't control. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal" life, she worried that beneath the surface she was a freak, that there was something irrevocably wrong with her. Passing for Normal is Wilensky's emotionally charged account of her lifelong struggle with the often misunderstood disorders Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. A powerful witness to her own dysfunction, Wilensky describes the strain it bore on her relationships with the people she thought she knew best: her family, her friends, and herself. Confronting the labels we apply to ourselves and others--compulsive, crazy, out of control--Amy describes her symptoms, diagnosis, and her treatment with courage and a healthy dose of humor, gradually coming to terms with the absurdities of a life beset by irrational behavior. This compelling narrative, by turnstragic and comic, broadly extends our understanding of the won-drously complex human mind, and, with subtlety and grace, challenges our notion of what it is to be "normal."