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NZ biography

Peter Finlay describes life with schizophrenia in this unflinching and funny memoir. Currently a fifty-two year old university student, he tells the story of what he's endured, lost and overcome. In a seclusion room at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital, Peter writes, My mind was independent of my surroundings. It raced, it dived, it ducked, it soared. Full of wild imaginings of world power, of super intelligence, of supreme goodness, of reward. Twice someone poked a cigarette into the room, through little holes in the window