Clues: A Paranoid Schizophrenic's Detective Story

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Summary: Not so impressed
Review: A vivid and quite textured description of a person's slow movement towards a more paranoid and/or psychotic way of thinking. The nuanced and specific details of the main character's thinking were particularly believable. As a first person story of a person's mental changes, I thought this book was excellent. The inner dialogue of the main character is the strength of this book.

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Summary: A Psychiatrist Reviews 'Clues"
Review: A vivid and quite textured description of a person's slow movement towards a more paranoid and/or psychotic way of thinking. The nuanced and specific details of the main character's thinking were particularly believable. As a first person story of a person's mental changes, I thought this book was excellent. The inner dialogue of the main character is the strength of this book.

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Summary: The logic of Paranoia
Review: Clues may not shed much new light on Schizophrenia, but it does show how escalating paranoia forms a tighter and tighter vise that squeezes the main character. If you like psychological horror, or are just interested in the logic of the paranoid mind, this book supplies both.

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Summary: The logic of Paranoia
Review: Clues may not shed much new light on Schizophrenia, but it does show how escalating paranoia forms a tighter and tighter vise that squeezes the main character. If you like psychological horror, or are just interested in the logic of the paranoid mind, this book supplies both.

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Summary: Not so impressed
Review: I expected it to show a progression as the author sank into his illness. Instead, most of the book was the same sort of paranoia repeated over and over, with no particular insight. I didn't learn much about schizophrenia from this book. The only good thing I can say is that it is a short book.