"… a very moving and poignant indictment of a culture and psychiatric system that condemned the author’s mother to a living hell and her daughter to a motherless childhood. Coté’s use of illustration is artful and original. A touching tribute, an inspired challenge."
– Phyllis Chesler, author of
Women and Madness and
The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom.
"Renee Cote's book, Was My Mother Schizophrenic?, is a remarkably courageous, painstaking exploration of the tragedy and mystery of her mother's life. With so many forces -- the mental health establishment, sexism, religion, some frightened family members, her own mixed feelings -- working against her, it is a miraculous work of love that the author carried out, trying to piece together fragments and clues from every source she could find, going deeply inside herself, and reaching no easy answers but giving life to a picture of her mother as a smart, loving, caring woman who was wrongly classified and sent away for decades, robbed of her freedom and her joy, and yet managed to live enough in her daughter's heart that her daughter was moved to write this illuminating book."
- Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist and author of Don't Blame Mother, They Say You're Crazy, and The Myth of Women's Masochism.
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