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Tag: Roberta Payne

Roberta Payne on the art of schizophrenia

Posted on July 29, 2015 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Roberta Payne, author of the superb memoir Speaking to My Madness, did the cover art on the current issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin. The issue also runs an essay she wrote about “schizophrenic art.” I once drew on poster-size paper a gracefully diagonal, writhing black eel. So far, conventional structure that any artist might have planned. But the eel’s […]

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A Book Almost Impossible to Have Lived and Written: Roberta Payne’s “Speaking to My Madness”

Posted on December 5, 2013 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

I wanted to kill myself.  Almost.  In my mind I went right to that edge and knew that I wanted to try to kill myself but be found while I was still alive.  But someone had to find out how bad it was.  Somebody had to know.  Before nightfall.  The night poised before me promised […]

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