Best minds a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions
The best minds
Jonathan Rosen
- New York, New York Penguin Books 2024
- 562 pages 22 cm
First published 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The house on Mereland Road. The suitable playmate -- The good earth -- Memory glass -- Strangers -- American pie -- Freedom summer -- Message in a bottle -- Misreading -- Part II. The house of psychiatry. The shadow knows -- Revolving door -- Going sane -- Stories -- Choosing -- The break -- Entanglement -- Locked ward -- Making illness a weapon -- Underclass -- Halfway -- Part III. The house of law. Brains -- Mentors -- Precedent -- Secrets -- The sympathetic light of sickness -- Happy idiot -- Postdoc -- Thoughtful enabling -- Career killer -- Part IV. The house of dreams. Role model -- Twice born -- Creativity, inc. -- Michael called Kevin -- Shamans -- Equal opportunity -- The backward journey -- The two Adams -- Personal emergency -- Going back -- The fatal funnel -- Cain and Abel -- The eternal optimist -- Endings -- Epilogue. No going back.
9780143132899 014313289X 9781802063257
Laudor, Michael Rosen, Jonathan 1963- --Friends and associates.
Schizophrenics--United States--Biography. Male friendship--United States.