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Jonathan Harnisch

Jonathan Harnisch

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Author | Mental Health Advocate | Schizophrenia | Artist | Blogger | Podcast Host | Patent Holder | Hedge Fund Manager | Film & TV Producer | Musician

A King Under Siege

A King Under Siege

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<p><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magnates strove to separate him from his friends and advisors, and even threatened to depose him if he refused to do their bidding. The Lords Appellant, as they came to be known, purged the royal household with the help of the Merciless Parliament. They murdered his closest allies, leaving the King alone and defenseless. He would never forget his humiliation at the hands of his subjects. Richard's inability to protect his adherents would haunt him for the rest of his life, and he vowed that next time, retribution would be his.</span><br /><span class="a-text-bold" style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;">B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree!</span></p>

Story Behind The Book

Envision a blend of a mentally ill mind with unsurpassed resiliency and fiery intellect and your result would be the brilliant Jonathan Harnisch. An all-around artist, Jonathan writes fiction and screenplays, sketches, imagines, and creates. Produced filmmaker, fine artist, musician, and published erotica author, Jonathan holds myriad accolades, and his works captivate the attention of those who experience it. Manic-toned scripts with parallel lives, masochistic tendencies in sexual escapades, and disturbing clarities embellished with addiction, fetish, lust, and love, are just a taste of themes found in Jonathan's transgressive literature. Conversely, his award-winning films capture the ironies of life, love, self-acceptance, tragedy and fantasy. Jonathan's art evokes laughter and shock, elation and sadness, but overall forces you to step back and question your own version of reality. Scripts, screenplays, and schizophrenia are defining factors of Jonathan's life and reality - but surface labels are often incomplete. Jonathan is diagnosed with several mental illnesses from schizoaffective disorder to Tourette's syndrome; playfully, he dubs himself the "King of Mental Illness." Despite daily symptomatic struggles and thoughts, Jonathan radiates an authentic, effervescent, and loving spirit. His resiliency emanates from the greatest lesson he's learned: laughter. His diagnoses and life experiences encourage him to laugh at reality as others see it. Wildly eccentric, open-minded, passionate and driven, Jonathan has a feral imagination. His inherent traits transpose to his art, making his works some of the most original and thought-provoking of modern day. Jonathan Harnisch's struggles with his mental health 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.

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Personal Experience Illuminates Schizophrenia

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<p><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">A fragmented debut novel about life lived under a fog of schizophrenia from author Harnisch.</span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">Benjamin J. Schreiber has...tried to rob a bank with a cellphone [and lands] in therapy [where he] explores his alter ego Georgie [who], like Ben, depends on wealthy parents. [The money enables Georgie] to explore...kinky sex [with] Claudia...[and he] succumbs to a...love only his...mind...could produce.</span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">At one point...Harnisch introduces himself as a mentally ill artist in a string of beat-like sentences: &quot;Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche.&quot; </span><br style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;" /><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">-</span><i style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">Kirkus Reviews</i><br style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;" />  </p>