Luminous Mind: lyric essays

By Dr. Elliot Gavin Keenan

Elliot Gavin Keenan arrives as a first-year PhD student in psychology at UCLA. He is autistic and bipolar, aspects of himself he has learned to work with; however, under the sunny Los Angeles sky, something changes. Manias become darker, more distressing, and the cycle of mania and depression accelerates until the boundaries of each state are indistinguishable. By April, Elliot decides to commit suicide. He wakes up in an ICU three days later.

Luminous Mind is about one young trans man's struggle with mental illness and the paradoxical trauma experienced by suicide attempt survivors. His rhapsodic prose captures hope, despair, ambivalence, and everything in between. Deeply introspective and honest, Luminous Mind is a story of healing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DVSZ6TK6
• ISBN13: 9798308931614
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"