Phil & Me
Amanda Tetrault
£24.99
People with schizophrenia are different from us in ways that we do not understand. At times they recognize no known system of reason, and at others a lucid appreciation of their condition. In relapse they live in a subterranean world, apparently on the road to Hades and then, if they... Read More
People with schizophrenia are different from us in ways that we do not understand. At times they recognize no known system of reason, and at others a lucid appreciation of their condition. In relapse they live in a subterranean world, apparently on the road to Hades and then, if they are lucky, in the sunshine, as if they had crawled gasping on to the banks of the Styx after almost drowning in the waters. Phil and Me is a daughter's use of photography to try to understand her relationship with her father and the disease that has crippled him. It is as well an attempt to focus public understanding on the essential humanity of all victims of schizophrenia, an attempt to recognize the worth and contribution of those who survive the nightmares and dreams of schizophrenia. The book is Amanda's exploration into the world of her father, Philip Tetrault - a poet who has lived with schizophrenia since he attended McGill University at the age of 21. Philip was a poet suffused with promise, and was hailed by Leonard Cohen as one of the best young poets in Canada in 1986 before he slipped into yet another schizophrenic void. The photographs cover six years of sporadic meetings between Amanda and Phil.
Published by Trolley Books
21.59 x 28.19 cm
Hardcover
140 pages
2004
English
ISBN 978-1-9045630-4-4
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