{"title":"Arnhild Lauveng","description":"\u003cp\u003eArnhild Lauveng offers profound and empathetic insights into mental health, drawing from personal experience to illuminate the complexities of psychological recovery. Her writing provides a compassionate perspective on living with and overcoming conditions like schizophrenia, blending narrative depth with clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders seeking thoughtful explorations of the human mind and the journey towards wellness will find Lauveng's work both inspiring and enlightening. Her books invite reflection on healing, resilience, and the transformative power of understanding mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-road-back-from-schizophrenia-by-arnhild-lauveng-9781510724952","title":"A Road Back from Schizophrenia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. \u003cem\u003eA Road Back from Schizophrenia\u003c\/em\u003e gives extraordinary insight into the logic and life of a schizophrenic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng's own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe paints a surreal world—sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty—in which \"the Captain\" rules her by the rod and the school’s corridors are filled with wolves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasised that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. Today, however, she calls herself a \"former schizophrenic,\" has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness—not the illness incarnate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462619283692,"sku":"9781510724952","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781510724952-a-road-back-from-schizophrenia.jpg?v=1775018281"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/arnhild-lauveng.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}