The Schizophrenic Dialogues

About the Book

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.

About the Author

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.