David Laing Dawson is a psychiatrist and the author of two text books, five novels, and several screenplays. His novels and films all address mental health issues. Documentaries and academic books provide information and explanation, but novels and narrative films can give this information life, heart, and context in the real world. Slide in All Direction is his latest novel. Cutting for Stone his most recent film.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $5.00 From the shadows of failing steel mills and the back alleys of urban decay, comes a story of addictions, crime, mental illness, and of redemption, love and family. From the author of Last Rights, Double Blind, Essondale, and The Intern.
"Dawson's vital characters and the ambience of his city and institutional scenes earn him respect as the author of both a superb mystery and a compelling novel." --Publishers Weekly
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Print: $4.76 Download: $2.50 A gentle little story of fairies, butterflies and candy.
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Print: $23.33 Download: $5.00 Portfolio of selected paintings and poems
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Disc: $19.95 As family and friends watch helplessly, a young man plummets into the despair of schizophrenia. There seems no way out until he meets Lexus. 97 minutes - feature film. Critics say it is: "A far truer and rawer depiction of schizophrenia than you have seen before." - "riveting" Watch trailer: www.youtube.com/user/cuttingforstone
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Print: $19.92 Download: $5.00 During the tumultuous sixties, Dr. Robert Snow interns in a big city hospital. Dawson lets his readers feel the triumphs and tragedies, the exhausting, overwhelming experiences of hospital life and death. Set against the social upheavals of 67/68 the author once again gives us vital characters struggling in an ambience that rings all too true.
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