Eric Coates

Hearing Voices: A Memoir of Madness Eric Coates

Available for the last time: The original version of Hearing Voices, available exclusively through Amazon. A treasure for collectors, researchers and students interested in the evolution of a writer and a schizophrenic who hears voices. There is no other other book like it. "I remember an instance at one point, during my late twenties or early thirties, when I wondered what it would be like to hear voices. At that time I was slightly acquainted with a schizophrenic named Mike, who told me that he had Jesus in his head. That was his hallucination. Jesus talked to him, apparently. I remember wondering at the time what it would be like to have Jesus talking in my head. What would it be like, I wondered, to be schizophrenic for a day?It turned out to be more terrifying than I ever imagined."