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This book tells about psychiatry through the prism of individual stories told by the characters themselves: how to live with a particular disorder, how to be treated and work in psychiatric hospitals, how to take care of relatives with psychiatric diagnoses. Such testimonies are inextricably linked to the personalities of the narrators, to their multifaceted selves, so these stories are primarily about people, not diseases. Another topic that serves as a backdrop and context for sharing is the complex and controversial history of psychiatry, and in particular, its reflection in architecture, which becomes a mirror of social and medical attitudes.

"Can you hear the sound of a tree falling in the forest if no one is around?" - this question invites us to become witnesses: to imaginatively cross the threshold of a psychiatric hospital, to listen to other people's experiences, to see how they cease to be incomprehensible and frightening, becoming instead a part of the universal human experience.