About the book: 2009 / Arnhild Lauveng was born in 1972. Candidate of Psychological Sciences, practicing clinical psychologist. At the age of seventeen she was sent to a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The next ten years of her life were a series of voluntary and forced hospitalizations. She was last hospitalized at the age of 26. Arnhild completely defeated schizophrenia and today has the opportunity to talk about the disease both as a professional psychologist and as a former patient. She immerses us in a world of voices and hallucinations, where she is pursued by an army of rats, and wolves with glowing yellow eyes bare their slobbering jaws. It reveals the inner logic and meaning of erroneous perceptions and symptoms. This book chronicles her struggle with the disease. Patient Arnhild talks about her experience, the attempts of doctors to find contact with her and about her experiences, about the support of loved ones, who, despite everything, did not lose hope. Psychologist Arnhild analyzes the methods used by doctors and explains their success or failure. The unique experience of a cured person, a description of the disease “from the inside” is of great interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, sick people and their relatives, and to the widest reader. The artistic style of presentation and the insight with which the book is written makes for exciting reading. This is an amazing story of victory that few believed in.