Emily Amaral’s Reviews > All in Your Head: Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to be Disordered > Status Update

This is an odd book wherein which I’m compelled to rate some chapters as low as 2 ☆ and others 4/5 ☆. I’ll do an overall average to come up with a final assessment. Nonfiction reads slower than fiction and life got in the way of an expedient review from me. I anticipate maybe one or two more “reading sessions” until completion. (I think I’ll want to read a “palate cleanser” next.)

I didn’t realize I had so much in common with the author! (I’m also a native Nutmegger saddled with an adjacent mood disorder who could be arguably categorized as a “bleeding heart lefty.”) This appears to be a provocative history delving into the anti-psychiatry movement, which literally goes back centuries. deBoer’s dialogue about the influence of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was intriguing.