When the Sun Bursts
The Enigma of Schizophrenia
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 226 pages ; 22 cm
"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas shows that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and explains that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk with them regularly and for a sustained period soon after they show signs of imminent breakdown. In this sensitive and evocative narrative, Bollas draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960s. He offers his interpretation of how schizophrenia develops, typically in the teen years, as an adaptation during the difficult transition to adulthood."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Up against the wall -- A nation's madness -- Frozen psychosis -- Free speech -- A magical bench -- Listening to a different logic -- Mind-blowing thoughts -- From history to mythology -- Leaving things alone -- Metasexuality -- Hearing voices -- Assumed knowledge -- Hiding the mind -- Dodging thought -- Somatoforms -- Dumbing down -- Where are you from? -- Change -- Lucy on an island.
ISBN:
9780300214734
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PSYCHOLOGY Condition Bol | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/16/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.