A Brother’s Struggle with Mental Illness

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Novelist, poet, and psychotherapist Paul Pines talks about the family tragedy of mental illness. He writes about his younger brother’s struggle with paranoid schizophrenia in a new memoir, My Brother’s Madness.

Weigh in: Have you been affected by a family member’s struggle with severe mental illness? If so, have you found a way to cope?

Event: Paul Pines will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, November 27 at 7 pm
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

My Brother’s Madness is available for purchase at amazon.com

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