Sleeping on Concrete: My Life as a Transgendered Schizophrenic

by Sam Ashkenas

Overview

Sleeping on Concrete is a memoir chronicling Sam Ashkenas' transition from male to female while at the same time dealing with her schizophrenia and other various psychiatric diagnoses including post-traumatic stress disorder and autism spectrum disorder. She gives vivid detail of the years she spent in and out of hospitals while in the throes of active psychosis. Eventually her story climaxes as she is arrested for threatening the president and spends nine months in prison.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781530312061
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Sam Ashkenas is a male-to-female transgendered person who also suffers from schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. She has been in psychiatric treatment since the age of two. Sleeping on Concrete is her first book.