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Novels (Mysteries/Thrillers), Feature Film
by Dr. David Laing
Dawson
This site tells the story of mental illness in a
manner that documentaries and scholarly works cannot.
"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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18 year old Philip Renold finds himself locked in a Mental
Hospital .....read more |
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 |
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.
It is with this in mind that we have named our site, and our
feature film on the subject: Cutting for
Stone. For more information and a non fiction book on schizophrenia see:
 Schizophrenia: Medicine's Mystery, Society's
Shame
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