Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

20 reviews

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Bullying, Confinement, Medical content, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

vercopaanir's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Again, this book is very much like a memoir and so I choose to leave it un-rated, but I was fascinated by Wang’s experiences and really appreciated that she was willing to share them so publicly as to write them in a book.  I do my best not to be ableist, but I know I have work to do, and that includes ableism around psychosis and the schizophrenias.  Being invited into the mind of someone with schizoaffective disorder was an incredible opportunity for learning and growth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, Bullying, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Medical content, Ableism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

maxthefish's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This book is exactly what I needed as I've been exploring my diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. There's very little books available on it, even fewer in the autobiographical format were you're able to learn from people who actually have it instead of just a doctor who's emotionally removed from the situation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism

madelonpaige's review

informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Self harm

literarylion's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Pros:

• a good and necessary perspective on serious mental illness and its perception in society
• definitely a story that hasn't been told before

Cons:

• It got progressively more trite 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Chronic illness

upperjackpain's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide and Forced institutionalization

eshdho's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual assault

caradubois's review

dark emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual assault and Emotional abuse

vigil's review

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

the author has a very impersonal style of writing, alluding to her background in academia (which she likes to make note of, often) that makes it difficult to emotionally engaged with though highly informative. her first-hand account of schizophrenia and the way it is treated by the healthcare system was thought provoking and again, informative.

what i will say is that it jumps around from topic to topic with little coherency. the ultimate endpoint of the book, is more akin to a memoir, perhaps a journal, than essays. and because of this failure of the marketed and titled premise it begins to feel increasingly trite as it goes on. i think this quality would’ve likely stayed even if reworked into a memoir format, but it might have been somewhat mitigated. in a memoir if you don’t want to have deep reflection on your privileged life and attitude (she loves to remind readers that she went to yale, generally in every entry) that is one thing, but in a collection of essays? it seems odd and out of place how little this was explored or addressed, only simply, and i must stress, repeatedly, stated with no clear purpose.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Sexual assault, and Self harm

gambo's review

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual assault