{"product_id":"2940148643685","title":"Learning from the Voices in My Head","description":"Eleanor Longden was a college freshman when she started hearing voices in her head. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and checked into a psychiatric ward, Longden spent years trapped in a nightmare of hospitals and medications, pain and depression.\u003cbr\u003eYet she survived. Her technique: to learn to listen to her internal narrators, not reject them. Now on the cusp of finishing her Ph.D. in psychology, Longden still hears voices — and she says she wouldn’t live without them.\u003cbr\u003ePart personal memoir and part medical argument, Learning from the Voices in My Head challenges society’s definition of crazy. Longden calls for a new, nuanced understanding of voice hearing and urges us to see madness not as a condition, but as a process — one through which those who struggle with mental health issues have the chance to emerge with their sanity intact. Longden’s powerful story shows that there is, in the end, a message in the madness.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"TED Conference, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122321113328,"sku":"2940148643685","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148643685_p0.jpg?v=1763706314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148643685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}