Life Writing and Schizophrenia ：Encounters at the Edge of Meaning ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Encounters at the Edge of Meaning

Publication series ：1

Author： Wood Mary Elene

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789401209434

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789042036840

Subject： R749.3 Schizophrenia

Keyword：文学评论、文学欣赏,世界文学

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Life Writing and Schizophrenia

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

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