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Cutting For Stone

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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


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:

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