The Schizophrenic Dialogues

By Vita Rhie Quintanilla

The Schizophrenic Dialogues are a collection of memoirs on the first-hand experience of schizophrenia told through the lens of the actual dialogue between a person with schizophrenia and her auditory, visual, and tactile hallucinations. These accounts and their accompanying commentary represent the reality of people with schizophrenia in society and within themselves. The Dialogues shed light on the lives built to harness a stigmatized condition as a positive, and live in defiance of a "grave" prognosis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796072013

Vita Rhie Quintanilla

Vita Quintanilla is an artist, musician, author, and student of genetics from San Francisco, California. Her work reflects a seeking, shared by artists and scientists alike for revelation along the path of the unknown. Her interdisciplinary repertoire represents the experience of growing up in the margins of the American melting-pot designated to the black sheep of an evolving nation and globalizing world.

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Copyright © 2019 by Vita Rhie Quintanilla.

Library of Congress Control Number:     2019918691

ISBN:                  Hardcover                         978-1-7960-7196-2

                            Softcover                           978-1-7960-7197-9

                            eBook                                978-1-7960-7201-3

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Rev. date: 12/10/2019

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Foreword

Beginnings

July

Never Forget Your First