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Life writing and schizophrenia : encounters at the edge of meaning / Mary Elene Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Mary Elene.
- Series:
- Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 90.
- Clio medica: perspectives in medical humanities ; 90
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schizophrenia--Personal narratives.
- Schizophrenia.
- Literature and mental illness.
- Mentally ill in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Mentally Ill Persons.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- Medical Subjects:
- Schizophrenia.
- Mentally Ill Persons.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 353 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction-focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and 'treat' people who have received that diagnosis. Challenging the romanticized connection between literature and madness, Life Writing and Schizophrenia explores.
- Contents:
- 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's Autobiography and Fiction; 5 Diagnostic Narrative in the DSM-IV Casebook; 6 'That Damn Schizophrenia': Evolving Identity in Eunice Wood's Unwritten Story; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wood, Mary Elene. Life writing and schizophrenia.
- ISBN:
- 940120943X
- 9789401209434
- 1306167477
- 9781306167475
- 9781461952626
- 146195262X
- OCLC:
- 866620527
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