Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl : Reality lost and gained, with analytic interpretation / Marguerite Sechehaye ; Grace Rubin-Rabson, translator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sechehaye, Marguerite, author.

Contributor:

Rubin-Rabson, Grace, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia--Case studies.

Schizophrenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl

Place of Publication:

New York : Grune & Stratton, 1951.

Summary:

This book contains the autobiography of a woman with schizophrenia; it is Renee's intimate story as she recounted it shortly after her recovery. The present work may be seen as the negative of work on symbolic realization, the exposure of what lies behind schizophrenic signs and symptoms. As the photographic negative transposes color and space values, the patient's introspections can be compared with the observer's impressions of his behavior. This juxtaposition furnishes information preventing a false estimation of the patient and the degree of his indisposition. The verbal content at times lends an impression of graver illness than does his outward appearance, and the reverse is equally true. This renders clearer the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia which consists in a dissociation of an affectivity deeply disturbed by the loss of contact with life from an intelligence remaining intact and acting as a motion picture camera to record whatever comes within range of the lens. It goes without saying that Renee could hardly recount all the impressions experienced during the course of her illness. For this reason, in narrating Renee's intimate introspections, introspections which seem to bear witness to an astonishing lucidity, it is not be be forgotten that they represent only certain periods of her illness, fortunately, those most interesting from the psychological angle.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.