conditions are interlinked with the incomprehension of non-sufferers, which

provokes him to explain his reality. He has explored a range of media,

including film, music, and now the written word, to help the general public

understand exactly what it feels like to suffer from schizophrenia. By

fictionalizing the day-to-day meetings of multiple personalities, he is

illuminating a corner of psychiatry that few understand. As an author with

schizophrenia, Jonathan Harnisch is ideally placed to share the unusual

perception commonly defined as 'mental illness'. Harnisch is not dealing with

an altered reality, but a double reality. His main characters, Ben Schreiber

and Georgie Gust, perfectly illustrate how two lives can share the same body.