Henry Cockburn

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About The Author

Henry Cockburn was born in London and raised in Canterbury, where he attended King's School and received several awards for his artwork.  In 2002, during his first year studying art at Brighton University, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.  He recently moved out of a rehabilitation center to begin living independently.

Books by Henry Cockburn

Henry's Demons

Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son's Story

By Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton and tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process. The trees, he said, had told him to do it.

Nearly halfway around the world, in Kabul, Afghanistan, journalis...
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