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Frankfurt Rights – A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother’s schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens. 272 pages.August 2020. Paperback.Ebook also available. $18.95 | 9781733957908   Claire Phillips’ elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on mother-daughter relationships during the evolution of 20th-century feminism.… Read more Frankfurt Rights – A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

Loos Pilsen Connections

Claire and Loos weddingGallery of West Bohemia
Pilsen, Czech Republic – Nov 8, 2011
Opening of “Loos Pilsen Connections” focusing on the Pilsen families who were Loos’ early clients. These include Claire’s family, the Becks and Hirsches.