What I Saw in the Dark, Stories about Psychosis
Nº95 FEBRUARY 2026
Did you know that psychosis, rather than being a diagnosis, is actually a symptom? It happens when somebody sees or hears something that others do not; this condition may be stable, intermittent or once in a lifetime. Stigmatised and misunderstood, psychotic breaks affect one in every thousand people each year. Despite being associated with schizophrenia, they are part of a much broader spectrum of mental illnesses.
This book portrays lives marked by psychosis and therefore by perplexity and stigma. Because the altered understanding of everyday reality is, above all, an experience in extreme loneliness. And when it condemns a person to living in a psychiatric clinic inside a prison, it means almost inconceivable mental pain and suffering.
Did you know that psychosis, rather than being a diagnosis, is actually a symptom? It happens when somebody sees or hears something that others do not; this condition may be stable, intermittent or once in a lifetime. Stigmatised and misunderstood, psychotic breaks affect one in every thousand people each year. Despite being associated with schizophrenia, they are part of a much broader spectrum of mental illnesses.
This book portrays lives marked by psychosis and therefore by perplexity and stigma. Because the altered understanding of everyday reality is, above all, an experience in extreme loneliness. And when it condemns a person to living in a psychiatric clinic inside a prison, it means almost inconceivable mental pain and suffering.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9243-73-6
Book available only in Portuguese
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