Book Review by Kartar Diamond: Breakdown, Author Lynn Nanos

I had a very personal interest in reading Breakdown, by Lynn Nanos, because I have a family member with schizophrenia. Along with many others, I have felt intensely frustrated with every aspect of the mental health care system, including hospitals and their staff. I needed to find out what she had to report from her own professional experiences as a mobile emergency psychiatric clinician, with the special skills and ability to…