Living with Schizophrenia

Margaret Leggatt is an academic and a tireless advocate for families affected by complex mental illness. After founding the Schizophrenia Fellowship of Victoria in 1978, she went on to found SANE Australia, the leading national mental health organisation for people with complex mental illness and their families. Marg has been instrumental in national advocacy about schizophrenia, including working with writer Anne Deveson AO to launch a national community awareness campaign. She has also worked at Deakin University and with Professor Patrick McGorry at Orygen Youth Health. She is a patron of SANE.

Mary Ryllis Clark is a writer and historian. The author of several biographies and histories, she also wrote a fortnightly column for The Age, ‘Historic Victoria’, from 1992 to 2005. Mary migrated from London to Australia in 1974, lives in a historic factory in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy and enjoys her city’s rich and diverse cultural life. Her most recent book is Turning Points (Monash University Publishing, 2022), a collection of interviews with remarkable Australians reflecting on the moments that shaped their lives.