The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage.

At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived.

In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.

*Includes reading group guide*


Author: Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780446671330
ISBN10: 0446671339
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs