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Note to readers

I have written this book for anyone interested in psychosis. This

includes those who know that experience from the inside, as well as
their families and friends. I have written for colleagues, especially
psychoanalysts, but also for anyone who wants to accompany another
person through psychosis. I write of my own experience, what I know
and its limits. It is mostly what I do not know that I trust, the drift of
wondering and wandering. I hope you will read with your own ques-
tions and the book will call forth more questions, and you will soak
yourself through in a rain of sounds and images, leaping from
unknown to unknown.
As a writer, I gather and repeat phrases, and each time it is to say
something a little different, so that the same phrase in Chapter Two
says something other in Chapter Four, and gathers new resonances in
Chapter Seven. Summoned by those repeating phrasesI kept them
in my pocket all through the writingthey map the territory I have
wandered. It is utterly foreign to what I intended. The whole project
was impossible from start to finish. This year of writing thrust me into
a fast moving river: art images, first person accounts, scientific articles,
poetry, novels, psychoanalysistrying out varied forms of writing
and voices (including a play comprising voices) that might carry what

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