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] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : 1 illustration
Language:	English
Subject:	Schizophrenia -- Treatment. Psychoses -- Treatment. Psychoanalysis. Psychotic Disorders -- therapy. Schizophrenia -- therapy. Psychoanalysis. Psychoses -- Treatment. Schizophrenia -- Treatment.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755256

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ISBN:	9780300216233 0300216238 9780300214734 0300214731
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780300214734

Table of 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.