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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| Superior document: | Clio medica : perspectives in medical humanities ; 90 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- Introduction / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- ‘Time Turned Solid, Like a Wall’: Four Mental Hospital Memoirs / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- ‘Will They Hear and Be Convinced by my Story?’ First Person Accounts from Schizophrenia Bulletin / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- ‘A Striking Similarity with our Theory’: Freud and Bateson Read Memoirs of Schizophrenia / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- ‘The Speech Which Arranges the Dance’: The Undoing of Schizophrenia in Janet Frame’s Autobiography and Fiction / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- Diagnostic Narrative in the DSM-IV Casebook / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- ‘That Damn Schizophrenia’: Evolving Identity in Eunice Wood’s Unwritten Story / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- Bibliography / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia
- Index / Editors Life Writing and Schizophrenia.