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In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical word into every inches of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their tales out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a captivating underground net-work of “psychiatric survivor categories” all around the globe, patients interact to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another re-cover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes’s Coat needs us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the cathedral basements and centers where a totally new way of understanding your brain has begun to adopt form.
A great gulf exists between your way medicine explains psychiatric disease and the experiences of these who suffer. Hornstein’s luminous work helps us bridge that gulf, guiding us through the internal lives of these diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disease, depression, and paranoia and rising with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves.