Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories about Mental Illness

by Darryl Cunningham

Book Overview

Psychiatric Tales draws on Darryl Cunningham's time working in a psychiatric ward to give a reasoned and sympathetic look into the world of mental illness. In each chapter, Cunningham explores a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608192784
• ISBN13: 9781608192786
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

the narrative of the comic takes a front seat

Very good journalistic comic by a former mental health assistant at an acute psychiatric ward. There's a particular focus on suicide, but dementia, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder are also covered. The art is simplistic but expressive, and this is acceptable because the narrative of the comic takes a front seat. Includes several harrowing and poignant accounts of the authors experiences, but also a healthy portion of general educational info. The author takes a sincere stand regarding social justice and the very mentally , and the many ways in which they are still mistreated by society. unrelated ... looking at the picture of a cross section of a skull and brain, I thought : this existence that I and other organic life live is founded upon an unsustainable deception. I feel alive , continuous ... I look at my body, and the bodies of others and I see a whole thing, a person. But the reality is, this existence is founded upon meat, gristle, blood and bone. It is a castle made of sand, a painting in fugitive pigments. The idea of anything arising from this, it's absurd. Flesh is a dying medium for consciousness ... one that ought to be considered obsolete. And yet its an acceptable standard.