Psych Murders

Gold Medal winner in the Midwest Independent Book Awards!
Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist!
Bronze Medal winner from the Independent Publisher Book Awards!

Stephanie Heit's hybrid memoir poem blasts the page electric and documents her experience of shock treatment. Using a powerful mélange of experimental forms, she traces her queer mad bodymind through breathlessness, damage, refusal, and memory loss as it shifts in and out of locked psychiatric wards and extreme bipolar states. Heit survives to give readers access to this somatic, visceral rendering of a bipolar life complete with sardonic humor, while showing us the dire need for new paradigms of mental health care outside closets, attics, prisons, and wards. Psych Murders adds a vital layer of lived experience of electroshocks and suicidal ideation to the growing body of literature of madness and mental health difference.

Author: Stephanie Heit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.00h x 7.01w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780814349878
ISBN10: 0814349870
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Medical | Mental Health

About the Author
Stephanie Heit is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space. She is a psych system/shock survivor, bipolar, a mad activist, Zoeglossia Fellow, and a member of Olimpias, a disability performance collective. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on Three Fires Confederacy territory and is the author of the poetry collection The Color She Gave Gravity.