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Unshrunk

Unshrunk chronicles Delano’s fourteen-year entanglement with psychiatric treatment and her eventual decision to reject a medicalized understanding of psychological anguish. The basic structure of the memoir is deceptively straightforward. In Delano’s own words: “My youth was shaped by the language of psychiatric diagnosis. Its meticulous symptom lists and tidy categories defined my teens and twenties […]