Reassembling the Self, an exhibition centred on a study of the condition of schizophrenia (UK)

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Reassembling the Self by Susan Aldworth

Saturday 7 February – Saturday 30 May 2015

Opening event Friday 6 February 7-9pm

Waterside Arts Centre, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, Greater Manchester, M33 7ZF

http://watersideartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/reassembling-the-self/

Reassembling the Self is an exhibition centred on a study of the condition of schizophrenia, which weaves together art, science, psychiatry and individual histories in an extraordinary exploration of self, perception and the fragility of human identity.

‘’To think of schizophrenia as a fragmented mind and then to focus on isolated fragments – the altered visual perceptions, heard voices, paranoid delusions – is to miss the whole experience… All of the work [in this exhibition] is at heart about human identity, the sense of self and how it holds itself together.’’

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University

http://www.vcatrafford.org/news/reassembling-self-exhibition-centred-study-condition-schizophrenia

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Thats kinda what im doing now.I spent the last 20 yrs knowing I have sz but thinking I was doing a good job hiding it, in retrospect I was doing good at all.But that awareness is really opening my mind to my true self and how to cope with it.