{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-schizophrenic-girl-isbn-9780452011335","title":"Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl","description":"This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee’s long sojourn in what she calls “The Land of Enlightenment\" or “The Country of Tibet” and of her gradual and painstaking return to “wonderful reality.” \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Renee moves in and out of hospitals, sometimes able to eat only tea and spinach, or apples and spinach, because “‘The System forbade anything else.” She regresses to a state resembling infancy, and she experiences intense despair, although she always describes her experiences with a pitiless and remarkable calm, as though she has observed herself from a great distance. And all the while she is sustained by the attention and understanding of her analyst, Marguerite Sechehaye, who has contributed an illuminating Afterword to her story. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This harrowing and unforgettable work is a classic in the literature of mental illness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With a foreword by Frank Conroy.Autobiography of a Schizophrenic GirlTranslator's Preface\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Appearance of the First Feelings of Unreality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Struggle Against Unreality Begins\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Riquette\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. I Go into Psychoanalysis and Find a Mama\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. I Enter the System\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The System Gives Me Orders and Things Begin to Come to Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. I Am Hospitalized; the System Persists and I Risk Losing Mama\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. I Sink into Unreality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. After a Beneficial Trip and Acute Crisis Confounds Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. My First Double: The Little Monkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. The Miracle of the Apples\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. I Learn to Know My Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Mama's Other Patients; All My Self-Destructive Energies Are Unleashed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Mama Is Busy with Baby Ezekiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. I Enter Mama's Body and Am Reborn in Ezekiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. I Become Firmly Established in Wonderful Reality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Interpretation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Stages in Ego Disintegration \/ Development of the Pathological Perception of Reality \/ Defense Mechanisms of the Psychotic Ego \/ Oral Sources of the Feeling of Reality \/ New Trauma amd Massive Regression of the Ego to the Fetal Phase\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. Stages in Ego Reconstruction \/ Symbolic Realization of the Fetal Phase as the Beginning of Ego Reconstruction \/ Creation of a New \"Imago\" \/ Imitative Process in the Service of Ego Formation \/ Construction of the Body Ego \/ Affective Bases in the Structuration of the Real\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. Conclusions \/ Value of Symbolic Realization in Formative Mechanicms of the Ego \/ A Dynamic Conception of the Process of Disintegration in Schizophrenia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite Sechehaye\u003c\/b\u003e (1887–1964) was a Swiss psychotherapist and a pioneer in the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenics. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of \"Renee,\"\u003c\/i\u003e which chronicles one of her cases and introduced a new model in how mental illness is studied.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Conroy \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1936 and graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He was director of the prestigious Writers' Workshop. Conroy wrote an autobiography \u003ci\u003eStop-Time\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, and his collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eMidair\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1985. His work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e GQ\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Harper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301987078373,"sku":"NP9780452011335","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452011335.jpg?v=1767721974","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/autobiography-of-a-schizophrenic-girl-isbn-9780452011335","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}