This story reveals what it was like to witness my son’s first psychotic break, and how I tried to make sense of something quite incomprehensible. The feedback I received after this piece was published made me realize there was more work to do, and that the subject was deserving of a full length memoir, which I am currently at work on.
This essay was published in the New York Times on April 21, 2017. Read “Unmoored by a Psychotic Break” in the New York Times, or download as a PDF.