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| Introduction | xi | |
| 1. | Prologue | 1 |
| 2. | Wrong Turn at Yosemite | |
| The First Day of the Rest of His Life | 3 | |
| The Second Crash | 13 | |
| "I'm Being Devoured by Tigers" | 16 | |
| The Gospel According to St. John's | 18 | |
| Oh, Yes, the Car | 25 | |
| San Francisco General | 31 | |
| 3. | "The Brightest Little Boy in the Whole Park" | |
| Derelict Keys | 37 | |
| The Journals | 40 | |
| Parenthood: No Statute of Limitations | 44 | |
| Insomnia--or, "Do I Have Genius?" | 49 | |
| "... Or Shall I Go Mad?" | 52 | |
| The Wanderer | 56 | |
| The Rationalist | 64 | |
| 4. | "One More Bloody Year of Reed" | |
| Year Two--Two Immortalities | 67 | |
| Once More to the Underworld | 77 | |
| "A Nice Birthday Present for Sis" | 86 | |
| A Layman's Guide to Major Mental Illness | 91 | |
| Delirious Mania | 95 | |
| The Muse Is a Harsh Mistress | 100 | |
| Who's Crazy? | 103 | |
| Madness: Divine or Not? Two Views | 104 | |
| 5. | M. Butterfly and Mr. Lithy | |
| Getting Back on the Horse | 111 | |
| M. Butterfly | 114 | |
| Mr. Lithy | 122 | |
| Three on a Honeymoon | 128 | |
| Fight and Flight | 133 | |
| "I'm Sorry to Have to Tell You This, Sir ..." | 135 | |
| My Drug Epiphany; or, The Morphine Connection | 148 | |
| "Some Failed Romantic Relationship" | 151 | |
| Eight West | 160 | |
| 6. | Weaving the Shround | |
| "A Desire Leading One to Death" | 181 | |
| The Suicidologist | 185 | |
| The (Almost) Smoking-Gun Pamphlet | 187 | |
| River Community | 193 | |
| Another Nail | 196 | |
| Home Alone | 200 | |
| Groundlessness, Common Ground and the Future of Psychiatry | 208 | |
| Footnote to 1995 | 213 | |
| 7. | The Final Year | |
| "A Place of Stopping, Not of Recuperation ..." | 215 | |
| NAMI | 223 | |
| Treating the Disease or Treating the Person? The Rehab Model | 230 | |
| Good Minutes, Good Hours | 239 | |
| "And I Believe I Shan't Ever Return" (The Quiet Hell of August) | 240 | |
| 8. | The Stone Cross | |
| All Saints' Day | 255 | |
| Obituary | 262 | |
| The "Iawaska" Mystery Solved | 276 | |
| Sunday Afternoon in the Psych Ward with the Kids | 284 | |
| 9. | Epilogue: A View from the Bridge | 287 |
| Acknowledgments | 291 | |
| Appendices | ||
| Appendix A | Selected Poems of Charley's | 295 |
| Appendix B | Short Story (The Pool Lesson) | 307 |
| Appendix C | Apples, Big Apples and Tangerines | 313 |
| Appendix D | Charley's Smoking List | 327 |
| Appendix E | Contact Information for Alternative Recovery Facilities | 329 |
| Notes | 331 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 347 | |
| Index | 351 |
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Jen Enis
reviewed Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide on September 03, 2011
Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide
Interesting account of his son's mental illness, but he also uses the book as an opportunity to share his views on the nature of mental illness, which are a little different than the standard medical model.
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Add Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide, On November 1, 1996, Charley Aurthur leapt to his death from a freeway overpass in Santa Monica, California. He was twenty-three years old. It was the culmination of five years of heartache for Charley and his family, as he struggled with severe mental il, Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide, On November 1, 1996, Charley Aurthur leapt to his death from a freeway overpass in Santa Monica, California. He was twenty-three years old. It was the culmination of five years of heartache for Charley and his family, as he struggled with severe mental il, Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide to your collection on WonderClub |
