Autobiography Of A Schizophrenic Girl

Author : Marguerite Sechehaye
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781789124989

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Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye Pdf

Marguerite Sechehaye, a Swiss psychotherapist, followed the work of Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget closely, believing there was a link between psychosis and trauma experienced as a child. One of her most notable cases was undertaken with a psychotic patient referred to as “Renée”, a pseudonym used for Louisa Düss, whom she and her husband Albert Sechehaye eventually adopted. Over the course of their work together, Dr. Sechehaye took the unique approach of chronicling “Renee’s” journal entries and personal reflections in tandem with her own clinical commentary. The approach significantly influenced mental illness research by introducing an antipsychiatry framework that positioned the patient’s experiences as a valid means of establishing their case histories. As a result of this work, Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: Reality Lost and Regained was first published in 1951, highlighting the most memorable aspects of the disease. The book remarkably reveals to the “normal” mind the emotional shadings, perceptions, confusions, and tortures of a mind at the brink of dissolution. It is at once a harrowing experience and a magnificently moving testimonial to the capacity of a human being to survive and triumph.

Author : Renée,Marguerite Sèchehaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Psychiatry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035123376

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Author : Marguerite Sechehaye
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780452011335

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Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye Pdf

This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee’s long sojourn in what she calls “The Land of Enlightenment" or “The Country of Tibet” and of her gradual and painstaking return to “wonderful reality.” Renee moves in and out of hospitals, sometimes able to eat only tea and spinach, or apples and spinach, because “‘The System forbade anything else.” She regresses to a state resembling infancy, and she experiences intense despair, although she always describes her experiences with a pitiless and remarkable calm, as though she has observed herself from a great distance. And all the while she is sustained by the attention and understanding of her analyst, Marguerite Sechehaye, who has contributed an illuminating Afterword to her story. This harrowing and unforgettable work is a classic in the literature of mental illness. With a foreword by Frank Conroy.

Author : Marguerite Sechehaye
Publisher : Plume
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0452011337

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Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye Pdf

This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee’s long sojourn in what she calls “The Land of Enlightenment" or “The Country of Tibet” and of her gradual and painstaking return to “wonderful reality.” Renee moves in and out of hospitals, sometimes able to eat only tea and spinach, or apples and spinach, because “‘The System forbade anything else.” She regresses to a state resembling infancy, and she experiences intense despair, although she always describes her experiences with a pitiless and remarkable calm, as though she has observed herself from a great distance. And all the while she is sustained by the attention and understanding of her analyst, Marguerite Sechehaye, who has contributed an illuminating Afterword to her story. This harrowing and unforgettable work is a classic in the literature of mental illness. With a foreword by Frank Conroy.

Author : Marguerite Sechehaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258021900

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Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye Pdf

Author : Arnhild Lauveng
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781620879139

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A Road Back from Schizophrenia by Arnhild Lauveng Pdf

For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng’s own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. She paints a surreal world—sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty—in which “the Captain” rules her by the rod and the school’s corridors are filled with wolves. When she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasized that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. Today, however, she calls herself a “former schizophrenic,” has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist. Lauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness—not the illness incarnate. A powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them.

Author : Robert Kolker
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735274464

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Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker Pdf

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER The heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand--even cure--the disease. Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the dream. After World War II, Don's work with the US Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen in one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their shocking story also offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy and the premise of the schizophrenogenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. Unknown to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment and even the possibility of the eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love and hope.

Author : William L. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1684220564

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The Mind in Chains by William L. Moore Pdf

2017 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this classic account of schizophrenia, Moore describes his struggle with madness. "How does it feel to be treated as mad? How do things look to you? And, above all, how do you preserve hope and dignity and keep your identity in a hospital for the insane? This unique and powerful book is authored by an ex-Marine and graduate student who suddenly finds himself stigmatized as a schizophrenic and committed to an insane asylum. It lays bare the secrets and hiding places of the soul with a frankness that will astonish the reader." From Dust Jacket. The "Mind in Chains" combines the interest of a study of schizophrenia with the fascination of a detective story.

Author : Tara E. Holley,T & J Holley
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0380723026

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My Mother's Keeper by Tara E. Holley,T & J Holley Pdf

Separated from her mother at an early age, Tara Elgin Holley became her mother's legal guardian at age 16 and set about trying to rescue the blonde fairy princess she remembered from the shambling street person her mother had become. An inspiring story of one woman's struggle to struggle through the pain to reach a better understanding of her mother, herself and a devastating mental illness.

Author : Susanna Kaysen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804151115

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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Pdf

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

Author : Glen A. Just
Publisher : Eagle Entertainment USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780615395623

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Autobiography of a Ghost by Glen A. Just Pdf

Born to a schizophrenic mother and an alcoholic father, Just's childhood was a struggle for survival. He shares not only his personal experiences, but inspires and coaches the reader in the techniques of mind expansion and psychic enhancement that he has found so useful and productive in his own life.

Author : Louise Gillett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Schizophrenia
ISBN : 0956693733

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Surviving Schizophrenia by Louise Gillett Pdf

The author's account of her life with mental illness.

Author : Mira Bartok
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439183328

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The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok Pdf

A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.

Author : Lori Schiller,Amanda Bennett
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0446549355

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The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller,Amanda Bennett Pdf

Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.

Author : Renée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Psychiatry
ISBN : OCLC:1028231721

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