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The Wendell Cocktail
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Description:The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there are few effective resources for people with both. Since about half of the mentally ill medicate with an addiction, an increasingly large percentage of the American population is left without adequate care. Wendells journals illuminate the complexity of a tormented mind that is nevertheless capable of exquisite enjoyment of music, natural beauty, and delight in the observation of birds and animals. The books conclusion suggests approaches to understanding and better providing for persons with addiction and mental illness.Endorsements:Margaret R. Miles is one of the most insightful religious thinkers of our time. The breadth of her historical understanding of Western thought and art, and her sensitive observations about the changing roles of women over time, have been clearly established in her other books. In this book she advances our understanding of mental illness and drug addiction.--Malcolm Young, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos, CaliforniaMargaret R. Miles has crafted a narrative marked by honesty and wisdom. A sisters promise and devotion, added to a brothers pain and courage, are key ingredients for The Wendell Cocktail. The suffering and anger voiced in her brothers journal entries are palpable. They bear convincing witness to the struggles of those living with mental illness and addiction in a culture that does not deal well with either.--Flora Keshgegian, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Graduate Theological UnionThis unusually personal volume is by turns painful, insightful, and disturbing, even occasionally beautiful and humorous, illuminating the dark corners of addiction and mental illness by skillfully
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