The Support Worker of Emile Durkheim House: Daily Life and Death in a Group Home for Mad People

By Jon Thomas Rowland

This work depicts no real people, but many real routines and procedures at a typical Canadian group home for people with mental illness (mainly schizophrenia). I trust that some readers will be interested to know what these are, and what happens in these benighted satellites of our mental health-care system. Reviewing the book in Broken Pencil 41, Amy Greenwood wrote "The story is about Adam, a support worker who commits suicide by blowing his brains out with a pistol.... [it] is a very necessary and vital read for anyone who gives a damn about what's going on within our healthcare institutions."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470051869
• ISBN13: 9781470051860
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"