Patient 12A
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So here I am, at a psychiatric hospital, looking for myself in a building I’ve never been in before. A few nights ago, I was ready to rid myself of myself. I still am, only, in a different way. This time, I want to do away with what I hope will soon be my former self. There is a promise written on the hospital’s walls: ‘You are the captain of your soul’. I don’t know what is wrong with me, I never have. All I know is that my head is clouded with loud voices screaming in different frequencies; none of them making sense. With only a stony face to hide it all behind, and a pained smile to offer my friends and colleagues. Patient 12A is Lesedi Molefi’s absorbing memoir, reflecting on his time spent in a psychiatric clinic in 2016. With vulnerability and candor, Lesedi reflects on the moments, large and small, that led him here. It is at once a personal history, an observation of how childhood experiences can have a profound effect on the adults we become, and a commentary on how mental illness remains a difficult conversation in black families. More than anything, Patient 12A is Lesedi’s attempt to filter out the noise in his head to find the truth, however uncomfortable that may be.
CONTRIBUTORS: Lesedi Molefi
EAN: 9781770107748
COUNTRY: South Africa
PAGES: 420
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan South Africa
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GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
WIDTH: 153 cm
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Memoirs
LESEDI MOLEFI is a Soweto-born writer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and entrepreneur. He has served as a writer and researcher for numerous broadcast documentaries, notably Lebogang Rasethaba’s popular MTV project The People vs The People (2019), and award-winning documentary filmmaker Sifiso Khanyile’s A New Country (2020). Patient 12A is his first book. It was shortlisted for the prestigious City Press Tafelberg Non-Fiction Award. Molefi lives and works in Johannesburg.
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So here I am, at a psychiatric hospital, looking for myself in a building I’ve never been in before. A few nights ago, I was ready to rid myself of myself. I still am, only, in a different way. This time, I want to do away with what I hope will soon be my former self. There is a promise written on the hospital’s walls: ‘You are the captain of your soul’. I don’t know what is wrong with me, I never have. All I know is that my head is clouded with loud voices screaming in different frequencies; none of them making sense. With only a stony face to hide it all behind, and a pained smile to offer my friends and colleagues. Patient 12A is Lesedi Molefi’s absorbing memoir, reflecting on his time spent in a psychiatric clinic in 2016. With vulnerability and candor, Lesedi reflects on the moments, large and small, that led him here. It is at once a personal history, an observation of how childhood experiences can have a profound effect on the adults we become, and a commentary on how mental illness remains a difficult conversation in black families. More than anything, Patient 12A is Lesedi’s attempt to filter out the noise in his head to find the truth, however uncomfortable that may be.
CONTRIBUTORS: Lesedi Molefi
EAN: 9781770107748
COUNTRY: South Africa
PAGES: 420
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan South Africa
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
WIDTH: 153 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Memoirs
LESEDI MOLEFI is a Soweto-born writer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and entrepreneur. He has served as a writer and researcher for numerous broadcast documentaries, notably Lebogang Rasethaba’s popular MTV project The People vs The People (2019), and award-winning documentary filmmaker Sifiso Khanyile’s A New Country (2020). Patient 12A is his first book. It was shortlisted for the prestigious City Press Tafelberg Non-Fiction Award. Molefi lives and works in Johannesburg.
