Called to Create: An LDSPMA Podcast

Ka Hancock and Spencer Hyde: Writing Honestly and Accurately about Mental Illness

July 15, 2021 LDSPMA/Ka Hancock and Spencer Hyde Season 1 Episode 8
Called to Create: An LDSPMA Podcast
Ka Hancock and Spencer Hyde: Writing Honestly and Accurately about Mental Illness
Show Notes

Be prepared to be stirred by two authors, Ka Hancock and Spencer Hyde. They both share how they portrayed the delicate subject of mental health by drawing on their up-close and personal perspectives. Ka Hancock, the author of Dancing on Broken Glass, is a former psychiatric nurse, and Spencer Hyde, professor at BYU and author of Waiting For Fitz and What the other Three Don’t Know uses his experience with severe OCD to speak through his characters. This subject is real and plucks at the deepest heartstrings.

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Kay Redfield Jamison