Life writing and schizophrenia : encounters at the edge of meaning / Mary Elene Wood.
How do you write your life story when readers expect you not to make sense? How do you write a case history that makes sense when, face to face with schizophrenia, your ability to tell a diagnostic story begins to fall apart? This book examines work in several genres of life writing-autobiography, m...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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Table of Contents:
- 'Time turned solid, like a wall': four mental hospital memoirs
- 'Will they hear and be convinced by my story?' First person accounts from Schizophrenia bulletin
- 'A striking similarity with our theory': Freud and Bateson read memoirs of schizophrenia
- 'The speech which arranges the dance': the undoing of schizophrenia in Janet Frame's autobiography and fiction
- Diagnostic narrative in the DSM-IV casebook
- 'That damn schizophrenia': evolving identity in Eunice Wood's unwritten story.
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Time Turned Solid, Like a Wall':Four Mental Hospital Memoirs; 2 'Will They Hear and Be Convinced by my Story?'First Person Accounts from Schizophrenia Bulletin; 3 'A Striking Similarity with our Theory':Freud and Bateson Read Memoirs of Schizophrenia; 4 'The Speech Which Arranges the Dance':The Undoing of Schizophrenia in Janet Frame'sAutobiography and Fiction; 5 Diagnostic Narrative in the DSM-IV Casebook; 6 'That Damn Schizophrenia':Evolving Identity in Eunice Wood's Unwritten Story; Bibliography; Index.