A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World Hardback - 2005
by Antonetta, Susanne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
In A Mind Apart, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience with manic depression, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and other "neuroatypical" conditions, to construct a fascinating portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly different from the norm. As with her previous book, which Michael Pollan praised in the New York Times Book Review as "a challenge to our prevailing notions of science and journalism and even literary narrative," A Mind Apart employs a unique fusion of literary genres to draw readers into the experience of people with neurological conditions and to consider what their alternate ways of perceiving may, in fact, have to teach us.
According to the United States Department of Health the number of people being diagnosed with autism has been increasing by approximately twenty percent a year over the last decade. AD/HD, Tourette's, and chronic depression have been spreading at commensurate rates. Sifting through the many abilities that underlie these and other mental "disabilities"- the "visual consciousness" of an autistic or the "metaphoric consciousness" of a manic-depressive-Antonetta reveals just how much "normally" functioning people can learn from those with neurological disorders. This fascinating blend of memoir, journalism, and science will be of deep interest to readers of Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures or Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon.
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- Title A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
- Author Antonetta, Susanne
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 243
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher J P Tarcher, Inc, New York
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 334410
- ISBN 9781585423828 / 1585423823
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.66 x 0.94 in (21.79 x 14.38 x 2.39 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005050654
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.89