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Article: The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness.
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- Families, Systems & Health
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- December 22, 2001
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The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
By Nathaniel Lachenmeyer Broadway Books New York, 2000, 255pp.
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer narrates a moving account of his father's life and his personal reaction to his father's death in The Outsider. Throughout his book, Lachenmeyer speaks of his relationship with his father, about their early bonding experiences, their separation, and his powerful sense of guilt after his father's death. Amidst the flashbacks of their experiences together and portraits of his father's years alone, there emerges a focused, intense attempt by Lachenmeyer to explore his father's mind and to reestablish a ...