Eugene Uttley, Arthur Thomas Morton, _Way Out_, & _The Boon_

 In 2006, Eugene Uttley was in his fourth year of teaching English as a Second Language in South Korea. At the end of that year, he experienced late onset schizophrenia. Walking away from a good job, a car, and an apartment full of possessions, he followed his voices and delusions into the streets of Seoul, where he became an illegal alien. A month later, he made it back to the USA, but continued in a psychotic break with reality, untreated, for almost an entire year, traveling coast-to-coast, driven by his disturbed mind. 

Now, nine relatively stable years later, he seeks to make audiobooks out of his two published works about coping with schizophrenia. 

Uttley's first, self-published book, _The Boon: Thoughts of a Schizophrenic in Remission_, is primarily non-fiction concerned with Uttley's personal case history, his recovery, and his current thinking about the disorder and what it means to heal psychologically and spiritually and to be whole.

The Boon draws broadly from thinkers, psychologists, and artists, quoting and commenting on excerpts from a wide array of works and touching on a number of subjects. For all its various sources and types of material, however, this book manages to maintain a brisk, light pace. It is an entertaining as well as an informative read. 

Genre-wise, The Boon verges into experimental, considering It also contains original works of poetry, prose, and dialogue written in the years building up to Uttley's psychotic break, with commentary about his mindset and the themes and images he used at that precarious time. Uttley regales the reader with wild anecdotes from his psychosis and crafts calm sketches of his current-day life as a survivor of this debilitating condition.

The Boon provides an intriguing portrait of a mind and soul before, during, and after the ravages of mental illness. It is the author's hope that it will inform readers about schizophrenia, fighting to some extent the oppressive negative stigma attached to the disorder, and that it will inspire and encourage proactive recovery techniques in fellow-sufferers. Uttley provides his contact information in the course of the book and encourages readers to initiate a dialogue with him during or after reading. He feels that an open conversation on schizophrenia will be beneficial for all concerned.

Uttley's second book, published under the pseudonym Arthur Thomas Morton by Pen_L Press, is _Way Out: A True Account of Schizophrenia_. It is essentially a memoir, though clad as a biography.