PSYCHOLOGY MEMOIRS

Book 1: LOSING DAD

PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: A FAMILY'S SEARCH FOR HOPE

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (BOOK 1)

No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That’s the question puzzling Joseph’s family when his mind descends into madness, filled with grandiose delusions and paranoia. He roams the world as a self-proclaimed prophet of God—purportedly arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returns to the United States, he faces down drug dealers and prostitutes while homeless, then disappears.
 
His wife and three kids race to find answers before he slips away forever. Their biggest fear—he will die a faceless stranger on the streets. Alone. 
 
A Benjamin Franklin Silver award-winner in psychology, Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope is a compelling true story told through multiple perspectives—the children, spouse, and patient; it offers a glimpse into a world that will either feel hauntingly familiar or shocking. 
 
The foreword by Dr. Xavier Amador, Founder, LEAP Institute, Author of I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! explains the neurological condition of anosognosia
 


NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING BOOK

 

  • IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in Psychology
  • Readers’ Favorite Award Finalist in Non-Fiction – Grief/Hardship
  • Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize Quarter-Finalist 

Book 2: FINDING DAD

PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN END TO THE SEARCH (BOOK 2)

Living on the streets with untreated severe mental illness that developed at the age of fifty-three, Joseph was all but forgotten by the world. His daughter, Amanda, had searched for years and still hoped to find him--she'd even registered her father in the National Database of Missing Persons. Her sister, brother, and stepmother had all given up or moved on.

 

Ten years have passed when a call from the Missing Persons division alerts Amanda that her dad is alive, though his location is unknown. Is he back in Chicago or in one of the thirty countries he’d roamed as a self-proclaimed Prophet of God?

 

Amanda's mission is clear: find him. Her motivation: unconditional love. She navigates a maze of medical bureaucracy and a tangle of relationships to discover that what she's been searching for is not all that she finds.

 

Finding Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: An End to the Search, a standalone book, is the highly-anticipated sequel to Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope and was selected as a finalist in the IAN Book of the Year Awards.

 

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