The Becoming
Nicole Luongo
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, "What does it mean to be normal?" and "Should we be sane in an insane world?"
Author - Nicole Luongo.
Narrator - Lauren Vandenbrook.
Published Date - Sunday, 15 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Nicole Luongo
Lauren Vandenbrook
Inanna Memoir Series
ECW Press
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, "What does it mean to be normal?" and "Should we be sane in an insane world?" Author - Nicole Luongo. Narrator - Lauren Vandenbrook. Published Date - Sunday, 15 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:00:10
Chapter 2
Duration:00:00:47
Chapter 3
Duration:00:00:08
Chapter 4
Duration:00:09:17
Chapter 5
Duration:00:11:15
Chapter 6
Duration:01:08:38
Chapter 7
Duration:01:00:23
Chapter 8
Duration:01:01:53
Chapter 9
Duration:01:14:56
Chapter 10
Duration:00:23:06
Chapter 11
Duration:01:13:19
Chapter 12
Duration:00:02:06
Chapter 13
Duration:01:14:52
Chapter 14
Duration:00:12:13
Chapter 15
Duration:00:13:24
Chapter 16
Duration:00:05:20
Chapter 17
Duration:00:53:58
Chapter 18
Duration:00:00:39
Chapter 19
Duration:00:00:46