could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life' (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. But when the acute period of her illness passes and she chronicles the. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and promising career at a major New York newspaper. At its best, Cahalan’s prose carries a sharp, unsparing, tabloid punch in the tradition of Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin. Journalist and Brain on Fire author Susannah Cahalan writes in an urgent, personal book that the 70s study by David Rosenhan had an outsized effect on psychiatry and may have been fatally flawed. It was first published on November 13, 2012. The book details Cahalans struggle with a rare form of encephalitis and her recovery.

Topics Autobiography and memoir The Observer Health, mind and body. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 New York Times best-selling autobiography by New York Post writer Susannah Cahalan. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Susannah Cahalan will be giving a talk at Foyles bookshop, London WC2, supported by the Encephalitis Society, on Weds 6 Feb. An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire, is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.

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