From the Inside
Will be published approx. on 21. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
155 pages
978-1-943888-09-2 (ISBN)
Description
After Timmis, the son of a wealthy family from Chicago's suburbs, was diagnosed a psychopath as a teenager, he frequented the controversial Menninger Clinic. He repeatedly ran away and was recaptured, held in solitary for extended periods, and forced to endure excruciatingly dull group therapy sessions. He recounts these experiences with adolescent braggadocio.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 15 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 122 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943888-09-2 (9781943888092)
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John Henry Timmis IV was born in 1961 in Warren, Pennsylvania, and spent part of his childhood in Athens, Ohio, where his father taught at Ohio University. Timmis described his home life there as an abusive one, with his parents separating and his mother bringing him to Chicago. He ran away several times before his mother committed him to the Menninger Clinic in 1976¿purportedly because she thought he might be schizophrenic.
After leaving the clinic, Timmis pursued his greatest passion: music. He liked to see himself as a legendary figure, but struggled mightily to build up the courage to play even in front of friends, so he often videotaped himself singing along to his own songs, or hired musicians to play with him while he filmed homemade concert movies. Timmis battled substance abuse, anorexia, and bulimia before eventually dying from complications of alcoholism in 2002 at the age of 40.
After leaving the clinic, Timmis pursued his greatest passion: music. He liked to see himself as a legendary figure, but struggled mightily to build up the courage to play even in front of friends, so he often videotaped himself singing along to his own songs, or hired musicians to play with him while he filmed homemade concert movies. Timmis battled substance abuse, anorexia, and bulimia before eventually dying from complications of alcoholism in 2002 at the age of 40.