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Roberta Payne

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Born

in Denver, The United States

Website

http://www.speakingtomymadness.com

Genre

Memoir, Psychology, Ebooks

Influences

Professor Giovanni Cecchetti
Robert Freedman, MD

Member Since

November 2013

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Having suffered through alcoholism, schizophrenia, and cancer, while sustaining a peripatetic career teaching college English, Latin, and Italian, Roberta Payne has firsthand experience with diseases among the deadliest of our times, bringing unique perspective to her work.
Payne has accumulated degrees from top universities -- a BA in classics from Stanford, an MA in Italian from UCLA, an MA in romance languages from Harvard, and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Denver -- but it is from her personal life that she's gained the knowledge most pertinent to her memoir, "Speaking to My Madness: How I Searched for Myself in Schizophrenia."
Roberta makes her home in Denver, Colorado, where she serves on the board of director ...more

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Amazing Grace

I'm an "Amazing Grace" junkie. I own many recorded versions of it; my favorites are one sung by Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Oxford and one sung by the amazing Joan Baez. No, wait, my favorite versions are ones sung at 12-Step meetings, everybody holding hands, totally grateful. The hymn hinges on fear. "T'was Grace that taught/ My heart to fear/ And Grace my fears relieved." Fear ruled my dri

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