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The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions

Rosen, Jonathan 1963- (author.).

Summary: An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in whichwe understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.

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ISBN: 9780698196520
ISBN: 1594206570 : HRD
ISBN: 9781594206573 : HRD
Physical Description: 562 pages ; 25 cm
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Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-539) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The suitable playmate -- The good earth -- Memory glass -- Strangers -- American pie -- Freedom summer -- Message in a bottle -- Misreading -- The shadow knows -- Revolving door -- Going sane -- Stories -- Choosing -- The break -- Entanglement -- Locked ward -- Making illness a weapon -- Underclass -- Halfway -- Brains -- Mentors -- Precedent -- Secrets -- The sympathetic light of sickness -- Happy idiot -- Postdoc -- Thoughtful enabling -- Career killer -- 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.