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Olivier Martini

Olivier Martini is a former student of the Alberta College of Art and Design who lives and works in Calgary. He generates visual artwork in a variety of forms. His sketches, paintings, and prints have been displayed at the Marion McGrath Gallery, published in Alberta Views magazine, and were included as part of the Canadian Mental Healthâ??s Copernicus Project.

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Bitter Medicine

A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

by Clem Martini & Olivier Martini

edition:Paperback

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tagged : personal memoirs, mental illness, nonfiction

In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the s …

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