[Paperback]" />Riding the Windhorse: Manic-Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness [Paperback]
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- Paperback: 260 pages
- Publisher: Hamilton Books (July 7, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 076182619X
- ISBN-13: 978-0761826194
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Robert Corrington's book is the brilliant, complex, powerfully rendered account of his life and his long-undiagnosed experience with the potent inherited disorder of manic depressive illness. Hauntingly rich in its portrayal of a seriously difficult and moving human journey, it has been both psychologically and spiritually transforming for me to read. It is a serious work, magnificently written; beautiful, sorrowful, complex, triumphant and courageous.
I read this book in the midst of an emormously challenging year with my own gifted brother, who has suffered from both manic depressive illness and schizophrenia for thirty years. In spite of years of treatment and medication, his disease has never been entirely controlled. It has created a tough, bewildering, heartbreaking, sometimes dangerous experience for him and for our family who loves him.
This book has transformed me at a critically important deeper level. Reading it has opened to me a profoundly wiser core of understanding; one that is dynamically useful, necessarily compassionate and rewarding for my own emotional well-being and that of my brother. I have been enriched with self-correcting insights from the book into the sorrowful, terribly complex, lonely challenges of this illness. These insights now both humble me and importantly attenuate my own reactive personal responses of anger and despair over those things that arise from frightening, legitimately serious crises in my brother's unusual life.
Robert Corrington carries the mind, heart, and soul of the reader into the human experience of uncontrolled psychic fluctuations in ways that are vital, critical and illuminating. He takes you into a reality that is at once individually unique, but metaphysically larger in the unfolding; the struggle of the human psyche and spirit for survival and meaning. It is alive, unsparing, authentic, unforgettable, heartbreaking, clear, and hopeful.
A reading of this book could assit a family member or loved one of a person with manic depressive illness, or any other psychic disorder, toward a more deeply intelligent, calming, helpful, compassionate response to the individual who deals with theperplexing features of this disease.
This book has two literary trails, resulting in wonderful gifts. One is philosophical and spiritual; the creative, illuminating, metaphysical construct into which Robert Corrington has woven this phenomenon of manic depressive illness. The other is the living, breathing autobiography of a unique spirit who has hadthe courage to share his journey with those who are afflicted andthose who stand, baffled, with them. Through this experience Ihave gained the greatest gift of all.The call to love.
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