Novels (Mysteries/Thrillers), Feature Film, Documentaries, Short Stories, Commentary (short stories and commentaries added regularly Plus A Story for Christmas)
This site tells the story of mental illness in a
manner that documentaries and scholarly works cannot.
Coming Soon: The Brush, The Pen and Recovery: A documentary on the Cottage Studio - an art program for people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. For More Information
FOR DETAILS SEE CFS - A film by David Laing Dawson
For a Preview See
Available from Barnes and Noble
Cutting for Stone, as depicted in the paintings of
Bosch and Bruegel, was a surgical technique used in the middle ages for
extracting the "Stone of Madness". It may have been mostly fakery,
and it didn't work. Despite the advancement of knowledge, of
effective medical treatment, less than fifty percent of sufferers
receive treatment today. Many experience worse fates than
people with these illnesses thirty and forty years ago. It is
estimated that there are 500,000 seriously mentally ill in American
Prisons. A common outcome of a mental illness today is homelessness
DAWSON NOVELS
Some Reviews:
"A medical mindblower. Dawson proves a sure-handed competitor of Robin Cook" Publishers Weekly
"A little Elmore Leonard, a little Seinfeld" Amazon
"Fiction that's as close to reality as it gets" Hamilton Spectator
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Four men, age 18 to 81, have murdered and now share a room in the secure forensic psychiatry ward of a mental hospital. Who better to get inside their heads and find both the tragedy and comedy of their lives than psychiatrist, David Dawson
LOOK INSIDE OR BUY |
A compelling story of
crime, addictions, love and redemption, played out in the
shadows of a post industrial steel town
LOOK INSIDE OR BUY |
Feel the
triumphs, tragedies, and the exhausting experiences of
hospital life and death set against the social upheavals of 67/68
LOOK INSIDE OR BUY |
Is this hell, or just a psychiatric hospital?
Dr. Robert Snow isn't sure. Waking from a drunken stupor in a small
green room, the doctor finds he's on the other side of the diagnosis.
LOOK INSIDE OR BUY |
A non fiction book on schizophrenia see:
 Schizophrenia: Medicine's Mystery, Society's
Shame
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