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How Language Holds
Schizophrenia Beyond Structure
What happens to language when speaking is no longer safe?
Drawing on fifteen in-depth interviews with people diagnosed with schizophrenia, How Language Holds offers a careful, ethically grounded exploration of how language functions under pressure. Rather than focusing on symptoms or diagnosis, the book attends to something more fundamental: how people use words to orient themselves, protect themselves, and remain connected when recognition is uncertain.
Across these interviews, language emerges not primarily as self-expression, but as work. Words are chosen carefully. Speech is shaped by risk. Creativity appears not as flourish, but as adaptation—through humour, constraint, repetition, and structure. Listening, rather than explanation, proves to be the condition that allows language to loosen or tighten, to hold or to spill.
Organised thematically and written with restraint, the book avoids case studies, clinical interpretation, and sensational quotation. Instead, it offers a sustained act of listening: attending to how speech behaves when it is under strain, how structure can function as care, and how meaning persists even when it resists coherence.
How Language Holds does not seek to explain schizophrenia or replace existing medical accounts. It asks something different: what responsibility follows when we take language seriously, especially when it does not conform to expectations of clarity, fluency, or order.
Thoughtful, humane, and quietly rigorous, this book will be of interest to readers in psychology, mental health, philosophy, linguistics, and narrative studies—as well as anyone concerned with listening, recognition, and the ethics of interpretation.
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