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The Georgie Gust Exhibit
by Georgie Gust
Welcome to the Georgie Gust saga, a podcast exploring self-discovery and mental health from the director/producer of the films in which Georgie Gust appears. On this podcast, topics such as schizophrenia, akathisia, anxiety and depression are discussed openly, providing listeners with a space to come to terms with their mental health conditions, regardless of labels or censorship. Whether you need a quick mental health fix, some steak for breakfast, or can’t sleep at night, Georgie Gust offers insight and comfort to those at home, work, on the road, in hospitals, or even in prison cells. This podcast was previously part of Porcelain Utopia, a popular mental health blog which received international attention, and is now an open leaf. Join us on the journey to discovering our true selves and coming to terms with our mental health conditions. Listen to the Georgie Gust saga, and find strength in acceptance. Let’s make this journey together! Happy listens!
Episodes
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Lucid Room (Abridged Podcast Edition) – Jonathan Harnisch
Enter the Lucid Room — not a location, but a fracture in time. In this 30-minute fever elegy from Pervo – Third Alibi, Jonathan Harnisch becomes Georgie Gust: a man unraveling in static, haunted by Claudia — the ghost, the drug, the wound that never closes. Through 57 poetic, hallucinatory...
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From Beautiful Hell: Alibi Sessions Vol. 4 (Harnisch/Gust 2025)
A mind-shattering descent into trauma, grief, and the ghosts we create to survive. From the fractured psyche of Georgie Gust—Jonathan Harnisch’s most haunted creation—comes a raw, surreal, and unforgiving series of writing sessions. This isn’t therapy. This isn’t healing. It’s survival through...
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Every Room is Burning – Audiobook by Harnisch & Gust
A surreal psychological audiobook in 24 haunting chapters. Follow Georgie Gust through madness, memory, and medical betrayal. Written by Jonathan Harnisch. Fiction. Memoir. Nightmare. Fire.
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1,000 Blinks: The Last Confession of Georgie Gust (Alibi³, 30m Tease)
1000 Blinks (from Alibi³): Written and performed by Jonathan Harnisch A thousand flashes of raw truth. A thousand moments too real to forget. From the acclaimed author of The Lucid Room comes 1000 Blinks—a haunting, hypnotic journey through the mind of a man shattered by trauma and pieced back...
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Lucid Room: Prelim Alibi³ | J. Harnisch (30m Tease)
Enter the Lucid Room — not a location, but a fracture in time. In this 30-minute fever elegy from Pervo – Third Alibi, Jonathan Harnisch becomes Georgie Gust: a man unraveling in static, haunted by Claudia — the ghost, the drug, the wound that never closes. Each word trembles with memory,...
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Second Alibi [Leprechaun Podcast]
"What...is it like to suffer from...schizophrenia combined with...Tourette's syndrome? ...[Harnisch's] answers to such questions and the ways in which they are portrayed prove complex. Mixing diary entries...with a screenplay...messages are often jumbled though not without merit, [as] when the...
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Intermission: 30-Second Self Realization 8/14/21
I just wanted to share this with you guys.
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Living Colorful Beauty (2019)
hi everyone! hope u enjoy this. it's inspired by the book avail on amazon etc. stay happy healthy & safe this year. your pal, Jonathan
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The Oxygen Tank [Leprechaun Podcast] Transgressive Fiction
The Oxygen Tank by author, Jonathan Harnisch is a non-linear story of schizophrenia and obsession. Rather than having a chronological plot, it exists in a series of maddening hallucinogenic episodes that combine Benjamin J. Schreiber's deepest insecurities and darkest fantasies. In every one of...
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Porcelain Utopia
A fictional novel that explores the inner workings of the schizoaffective mind. This book is not just to provide a picture of how mental illness disrupts the reality of the sufferer, but more importantly to share how creative pursuits like writing can have tremendous therapeutic benefits. Its...
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Living Colorful Beauty
Ben Schreiber, a mentally ill sexual abuse victim, recalls his exploits in psychiatric sessions. Nominee for Crimson Quill, INDIEFAB, National Indie Excellence Awards, 24th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, and BookLife Prize for Fiction.
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Lover in the Nobody
Independently wealthy schizophrenic offers to pay his neighbor to be his sexual torturer. Nominated for the Crimson Quill, finalist INDIEFAB, finalist National Indie Excellence Awards 2016, shortlisted 24th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, BookLife Prize for Fiction.
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Room of Books: The Brutal Truth
A collection of personal essays exploring the author's experiences battling schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Prolific writer and filmmaker Harnisch (Porcelain Utopia, 2016, etc.) explores his personal struggle with mental disorders in this short collection of autobiographical pieces that...
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History of Sex [Audiobook] – July 8, 2016, by Jonathan Harnisch (Author)
“It’s like I'm too far away, in time, from when I would actively participate in things, enjoying them while they were happening…” Ben Schreiber mostly inhabits a world within himself, sharing it with his alter ego Georgie, living often non-linearly in a process of psychosis with visions and…
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Room of Books: Living Colorful Beauty
Living Colorful Beauty is a twisted, intensely character-driven ride. In Living Colorful Beauty, author Jonathan Harnisch tells the story of Ben, a man diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, and several other issues. Ever since his youth, Ben has been both plagued by mental...
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Room of Books: When We Were Invincible
Written in the vein of Catcher in the Rye or The World According to Garp, Jonathan Harnisch’s When We Were Invincible is a coming-of-age novella, which details the experiences of outsider Georgie Gust navigating the fictional St. Michael’s Academy, a prestigious East Coast boarding school.…
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Room of Books: Lover in the Nobody
A young man battling extreme mental illness brings his sadomasochistic fantasies to life in Harnisch's (Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia, 2014, etc.) latest novel. As this riveting story opens, Georgie Gust, a suicidal Tourette's syndrome patient, tells his doctor he wants to leave the mental...
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Fragmentation [Audiovisual Book] by Jonathan Harnisch
Jonathan Harnisch’s postmodern literature relies on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator. In Fragmentation, Harnisch has outdone himself, for good or ill, with the strangest, saddest, most confusing, and unedited, schizophrenic, psychosexual...
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Fragmentation [Audiobook] by Jonathan Harnisch
Jonathan Harnisch’s postmodern literature relies on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator. In Fragmentation, Harnisch has outdone himself, for good or ill, with the strangest, saddest, most confusing, and unedited, schizophrenic, psychosexual...
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Coda - Sex Drugs and Schizophrenia
This 25-minute episode of our mental health podcast dives into the culmination of George Gust's life as he shares the climax to his 400,000-word journey through pain, suffering and, ultimately, redemption. Join us as we explore the harrowing yet uplifting story of George Gust. Uncover the events...
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The Day I Decided to Take Charge of My Life
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling.
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Porcelain Utopia [Audiobook]
Ben Schreiber suffers from a range of physical and psychiatric disorders, ranging from Tourette's syndrome to narcissism, borderline personality, and schizoaffective disorder. He is hospitalized after a drug-crazed attempt at a bank robbery and is now under the care of Dr C, a female…
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The Finale of Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia by Jonathan Harnisch
"Let's get the facts straight up front, to avoid any confusion later," the author states at the start of this wild, candid book. "I am a person first, a human being, just like anyone else. Maybe a little different, that's all." That difference is a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and this extensive...
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It’s All in a Day’s Work from Lover in the Nobody by Jonathan Harnisch
A young man battling extreme mental illness brings his sadomasochistic fantasies to life in Harnisch's (Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia, 2014, etc.) latest novel. As this riveting story opens, Georgie Gust, a suicidal Tourette's syndrome patient, tells his doctor he wants to leave the mental...
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Chance Encounter (High-Definition)
I completed Chance Encounter while undergoing a dark, deep experience with depression, existential despair and with new tears for old grief. So many people appreciate this film’s inherent beauty. I thank you, all, to God, and to all my fans, friends, and family for playing such a unique role in...
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The Morning After (High-Definition)
I completed The Morning After in December 2014 while undergoing a dark, deep experience with depression, existential despair and with new tears for old grief. I am glad to see so many people have appreciated my movies’ inherent beauty, especially this one, which has such a profoundly personal...
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The Big Flush (High-Definition)
In a public restroom, the camera pans the closed doors of 4 stalls; the first has an "out of order" sign on it. We hear a gaseous noise, and one by one, three musicians (a guitar player, a bass player, and a trumpet player all wearing tuxedos) flush the toilets and come out of the stalls…
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The Sitter (High-Definition)
What lengths will a couple go to just for a night out?
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Ten Years (High-Definition)
After ten years of separation, former prep school sweethearts meet coincidentally and discuss their hopes and dreams together in Long Island, New York. They spend the night together but move in their separate ways by the morning as they struggle with inner conflicts.
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Wax (High-Definition)
George wanders into a wax museum on the exhibit's last day. The museum comes alive. The mood turns steamy as different fantasies come into play. A sobering sense of the inevitable begins to emerge. He's getting married, but to whom?
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On the Bus (High-Definition)
Larry, alone and disheveled, walks the streets then boards a city bus, where he proceeds to disturb the passengers with his erratic behavior and verbal outbursts. Disturbing the passengers doesn’t really concern Larry, as one-by-one they each disappear, and Larry finds himself off the bus and in...
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The Dreamer Sleeps Without Dreaming, Part Two of Two [Audiobook] Podcast
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for thirty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And...
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The Dreamer Sleeps Without Dreaming, Part One of Two [Audiobook] Podcast
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for thirty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And...
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Pastiche, Part Four of Four [Audiobook] Podcast
"Be a doer and not a critic," Tony Blair once said. Pastiche, it is, in response to the heavily criticized and controversial author Jonathan Harnisch's (Porcelain Utopia, 2016, etc.) work and life. He offers this colossal work of erotic literary art that mixes styles, materials, etc., wildly…
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Pastiche, Part Three of Four [Audiobook] Podcast
"Be a doer and not a critic," Tony Blair once said. Pastiche, it is, in response to the heavily criticized and controversial author Jonathan Harnisch's (Porcelain Utopia, 2016, etc.) work and life. He offers this colossal work of erotic literary art that mixes styles, materials, etc., wildly…
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Pastiche, Part Two of Four [Audiobook] Podcast
"Be a doer and not a critic," Tony Blair once said. Pastiche, it is, in response to the heavily criticized and controversial author Jonathan Harnisch's (Porcelain Utopia, 2016, etc.) work and life. He offers this colossal work of erotic literary art that mixes styles, materials, etc., wildly…
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Pastiche, Part One of Four [Audiobook] Podcast
"Be a doer and not a critic," Tony Blair once said. Pastiche, it is, in response to the heavily criticized and controversial author Jonathan Harnisch's (Porcelain Utopia, 2016, etc.) work and life. He offers this colossal work of erotic literary art that mixes styles, materials, etc., wildly…
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Lover in the Nobody [Audiobook]
A young man battling extreme mental illness brings his sadomasochistic fantasies to life in Harnisch's (Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia, 2014, etc.) latest novel. As this riveting story opens, Georgie Gust, a suicidal Tourette's syndrome patient, tells his doctor he wants to leave the mental...
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Living Colorful Beauty [Audiobook]
Living Colorful Beauty is a twisted, intensely character-driven ride. In Living Colorful Beauty, author Jonathan Harnisch tells the story of Ben, a man diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, and several other issues. Ever since his youth, Ben has been both plagued by mental...
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When We Were Invincible [Audiobook]
A boarding school student with Tourette's syndrome looks for the meaning of life in this offbeat novella. This is recommended to fans of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. When We Were Invincible details the experiences of Georgie Gust at the fictional St. Michael's...
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Lover in the Nobody [Leprechaun Podcast]
A young man battling extreme mental illness brings his sadomasochistic fantasies to life in Harnisch's (Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia, 2014, etc.) latest novel....The novel plunges readers into the mind of a man at war with its own urges, memories, and sexual obsessions... Despite the garishness,...
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Living Colorful Beauty [Leprechaun Podcast]
At the opening of Living Colorful Beauty, the reader is presented with two protagonists. There’s Ben, the narrator of the preface, who relates the story of the awful sex education classes he sat through in middle school and of his subsequent discovery of his father’s collection of pornography…
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When We Were Invincible [Leprechaun Podcast]
A boarding school student with Tourette's syndrome looks for the meaning of life in this offbeat novella. This is recommended to fans of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. When We Were Invincible details the experiences of Georgie Gust at the fictional St. Michael’s...
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Freak by Jonathan Harnisch
Ben Schreiber knew Wakefield Academy would be a disaster before he even arrived. It would be the same as his last school--the taunting, the judgment, the panic at being an all-too-obvious schizophrenic in a crowd of teenage brats hungry for a target. His fears are confirmed the moment he steps…
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When We Were Invincible by Jonathan Harnisch
Author Jonathan Harnisch often writes about alter egos who live with the same mental disorders that he does, including schizophrenia and Tourette's syndrome. The protagonist of this coming- of-age novel is Georgie Gust, a character who has appeared in the author's previous novels as a sexual...
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Lover in the Nobody by Jonathan Harnisch
Equal parts existential nihilism and fetishistic erotica, this darkly hypnotic novel--in which the lines between reality and delusion are hopelessly blurred--chronicles a mentally ill man's search for meaning in his life, or at least some kind of profound corporeal satisfaction.Georgie Gust, who...
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Porcelain Utopia by Jonathan Harnisch
BEN SCHREIBER suffers from a range of physical and psychiatric disorders, ranging from Tourette’s syndrome to narcissism, borderline personality, and schizoaffective disorder. He is hospitalized after a drug-crazed attempt at a bank robbery and is now under the care of Dr C, a female…
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Of Crime and Passion by Jonathan Harnisch
This is the story of John Marshall, an ambitious and troubled young man determined to climb to the top of New York high society while spreading chaos and misery in his wake. Raised in a household of drunken abuse, John has little hope of anything but a factory job. Then he has an intimate…
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The Oxygen Tank by Jonathan Harnisch
Benjamin J. Schreiber has left rehab, but isn't out of the woods. His life, plagued by schizophrenic personalities and Tourette's, exists in series of maddening hallucinogenic episodes that combine his deepest insecurities with dark fantasies. In every one of these manic flashes, the same...
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ALIBIOGRAPHY.COM
Envision a blend of a mentally ill mind with unsurpassed resiliency and fiery intellect and your result would be the brilliant Jonathan W. Harnisch. An all-around artist, Jonathan writes fiction and screenplays, sketches, imagines, and creates. His most recent artistic endeavor is developing…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Georgie Gust saga, a podcast exploring self-discovery and mental health from the director/producer of the films in which Georgie Gust appears. On this podcast, topics such as schizophrenia, akathisia, anxiety and depression are discussed openly, providing listeners with a space to come to terms with their mental health conditions, regardless of labels or censorship. Whether you need a quick mental health fix, some steak for breakfast, or can’t sleep at night, Georgie Gust offers insight and comfort to those at home, work, on the road, in hospitals, or even in prison cells. This podcast was previously part of Porcelain Utopia, a popular mental health blog which received international attention, and is now an open leaf. Join us on the journey to discovering our true selves and coming to terms with our mental health conditions. Listen to the Georgie Gust saga, and find strength in acceptance. Let’s make this journey together! Happy listens!
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