About the book: 2017 / The book is an original and vivid artistic interpretation of the picture of the world of mentally ill people - a description of madness “from the inside.” Sincerely believing in her own madness and proclaiming the Queen of Psychiatry (schizophrenia) as her muse, Aqua Tofana carefully reproduces the atmosphere of insanity, imitates and plays up the peculiarities of thinking, speech and perception in various mental disorders. Describes and analyzes the range of internal, interpersonal, social and cultural-philosophical problems and issues that she had to face: stigmatization and self-stigmatization, the value of creativity of mentally ill people, the relationship between doctor and patient, and many others.