Mind Gone Astray

By Wayne Kallio

Book Overview

Kallio offers the reader an inside look at a husband's exhaustive efforts to help his wife overcome a baffling atypical psychiatric illness that surfaces seemingly out of nowhere. Anyone who has a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440121168
• ISBN13: 9781440121166
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A very highly recommended read

Schizophrenia is a term loosely thrown around in jest, but when faced with it, the reality is much more frightening. "Mind Gone Astray" tells the story of a couple faced with schizophrenia of one of them. Wayne Kallio tells the story as an outsider looking in of Charles Koivu dealing with his wife Kaija's schizophrenia. Giving a very personal touch to a topic few know about, "Mind Gone Astray" is a very highly recommended read.

Mind Gone Astray

This book is very good and gives a inside understanding of what the couple went thru.

A Fascinating and Moving Story of Love, Faith, and Hardship

With the kind of vivid and accessible writing you'd find in a best-selling novel, Kallio brings us into the true story of how a long-married couple honor their wedding vows in the face of terrible hardship, the fragmentation of a mind to mental illness. The husband finds himself faced again and again with trials that he could never have imagined, and yet he is able to meet the challenges by drawing on seemingly endless reserves of love for his wife and a simple and unpretentious Christian faith. This will be a fascinating and memorable read for anyone who is inspired by the age-old conquest of love over adversity, by the silent battles and victories that millions have made over the challenges raised by their own minds in the face of mental illness. It is not an overtly religious book, but readers will hardly fail to appreciate how much the husband in Kallio's story relies on and lives out his faith by honoring his decades-old vows to cherish his wife in "prosperity and adversity alike." And in our divorce-prone, materialistic society, that imparts a stronger and more inspiring message than any pages of preaching or apologetics ever could.