Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness - Brossura

Gail A. Hornstein

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1906254451 ISBN 13: 9781906254452

Casa editrice: PCCS Books, 2012

Riassunto

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form, and so it continues today. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein's brilliant work helps us to bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding so-called 'mental illness', one another and ourselves. One which asks not 'what's wrong with you' but 'what happened to you and how did you manage to survive?'

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gail A. Hornstein is a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA, and author of 'To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World', the widely praised biography of pioneering psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. She divides her time between Holyoke and London.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: PCCS Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906254451
• ISBN 13: 9781906254452
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 335
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile