When the sun bursts : the enigma of schizophrenia /

When the sun bursts : the enigma of schizophrenia /

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Author / Creator:	Bollas, Christopher, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Description:	xi, 226 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Schizophrenia -- Treatment. Psychoses -- Treatment. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis. Psychoses -- Treatment. Schizophrenia -- Treatment.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10429190

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ISBN:	9780300214734 0300214731
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first breakdown. In this sensitive and evocative narrative, he draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960s. He offers his interpretation of how schizophrenia develops, typically in the teens, as an adaptation in the difficult transition to adulthood." -- Publisher's website

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
Part 1.
1. Up Against the Wall
2. A Nation's Madness
3. Frozen Psychosis
4. Free Speech
5. A Magical Bench
6. Listening to a Different Logic
7. Mind-Blowing Thoughts
Part 2.
8. From History to Mythology
9. Leaving Things Alone
10. Metasexuality
11. Hearing Voices
12. Assumed Knowledge
13. Hiding the Mind
14. Dodging Thought
15. Somatoforms
16. Dumbing Down
Part 3.
17. Where Are You From?
18. Change
19. Lucy on an Island
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Index