{"product_id":"how-language-holds-oli-delgaram-nejad-9798241441638","title":"How Language Holds: Schizophrenia Beyond Structure","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow Language Holds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchizophrenia Beyond Structure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to language when speaking is no longer safe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on fifteen in-depth interviews with people diagnosed with schizophrenia, \u003ci\u003eHow Language Holds\u003c\/i\u003e offers a careful, ethically grounded exploration of how language functions under pressure. Rather than focusing on symptoms or diagnosis, the book attends to something more fundamental: how people use words to orient themselves, protect themselves, and remain connected when recognition is uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross these interviews, language emerges not primarily as self-expression, but as work. Words are chosen carefully. Speech is shaped by risk. Creativity appears not as flourish, but as adaptation-through humour, constraint, repetition, and structure. Listening, rather than explanation, proves to be the condition that allows language to loosen or tighten, to hold or to spill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganised thematically and written with restraint, the book avoids case studies, clinical interpretation, and sensational quotation. Instead, it offers a sustained act of listening: attending to how speech behaves when it is under strain, how structure can function as care, and how meaning persists even when it resists coherence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Language Holds\u003c\/i\u003e does not seek to explain schizophrenia or replace existing medical accounts. It asks something different: what responsibility follows when we take language seriously, especially when it does not conform to expectations of clarity, fluency, or order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful, humane, and quietly rigorous, this book will be of interest to readers in psychology, mental health, philosophy, linguistics, and narrative studies-as well as anyone concerned with listening, recognition, and the ethics of interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oli Delgaram-Nejad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798241441638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d","brand":"Oli Delgaram-Nejad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997334712575,"sku":"9798241441638","price":10.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-language-holds-oli-delgaram-nejad-9798241441638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}