The Voices of Robby Wilde - Softcover

Kytle, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671665731 ISBN 13: 9780671665739

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1989

Synopsis

Tells the story of a schizophrenic, describes the hallucinations that have plagued him, and depicts his efforts to live a normal life

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Review

"Extremely well-written. Robby's striving to live and work a normal life despite his illness raises him from being a common man to a more lofty station."--E. Fuller Torrey, author of "Surviving Schizophrenia"

"Told not just with incisive knowledge but the deepest compassion and understanding."--Norman Cousins

"Kytle has done an excellent job of educating the public about the severe form of mental illness that is paranoid schizophrenia. Beautifully written and easy to read, I can recommend this book for a wide range of readers, from young adults to professionals."--Peter A. Martin, psychiatrist

Told not just with incisive knowledge but the deepest compassion and understanding.--Norman Cousins

Extremely well-written. Robby's striving to live and work a normal life despite his illness raises him from being a common man to a more lofty station.--E. Fuller Torrey "author of "Surviving Schizophrenia" "

Kytle has done an excellent job of educating the public about the severe form of mental illness that is paranoid schizophrenia. Beautifully written and easy to read, I can recommend this book for a wide range of readers, from young adults to professionals.--Peter A. Martin "psychiatrist "

Told not just with incisive knowledge but the deepest compassion and understanding.

--Norman Cousins

Extremely well-written. Robby's striving to live and work a normal life despite his illness raises him from being a common man to a more lofty station.

--E. Fuller Torrey "author of Surviving Schizophrenia "

Kytle has done an excellent job of educating the public about the severe form of mental illness that is paranoid schizophrenia. Beautifully written and easy to read, I can recommend this book for a wide range of readers, from young adults to professionals.

--Peter A. Martin "psychiatrist "

From the Back Cover

The Voices of Robby Wilde is an engrossing, often disturbing, look at the inner life of a paranoid schizophrenic. Some ten years before his death at age fifty-three, Wilde asked his friend Elizabeth Kytle to write about his affliction. Ranging in time from Wilde's youth in rural North Carolina to his impoverished last days in Columbus, Ohio, Kytle chronicles the slow unravelling and final breakdown of a life. Wilde's story, heightened by his longing to be understood and his acute grasp of his own situation, will challenge readers to new levels of respect and compassion for the mentally ill.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671665731
• ISBN 13: 9780671665739
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback