Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education

Survival should not require silence.

Higher education promises that the mind is sovereign: that if you can think, you belong. But for millions of neurodivergent and mentally ill people in the academy, that promise comes with an unspoken condition: your mind must be the right kind of different.

Life of the Mind Interrupted is Katie Rose Pryal's account of what it costs to hide a psychiatric disability in the academy, and what it means, personally, and politically, to stop hiding. A bipolar-aut...