Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl : the true story of "Renee"

Author(s)

    • Sechehaye, Marguerite
    • Rubin-Rabson, Grace
    • Conroy, Frank

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Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl : the true story of "Renee"

with analytic interpretation by Marguerite Sechehaye ; translated by Grace Rubin-Rabson ; foreword by Frank Conroy

(A Meridian book)

Meridian, 1994

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"An astonishing memoir of reality lost and regained"--Cover

Bibliography: p. 188-189

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

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." 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. This harrowing and unforgettable work is a classic in the literature of mental illness. With a foreword by Frank Conroy.

Table of Contents

  • Autobiography of a Schizophrenic GirlTranslator's Preface Foreword Introduction Part I: The Story 1. Appearance of the First Feelings of Unreality 2. The Struggle Against Unreality Begins 3. Riquette 4. I Go into Psychoanalysis and Find a Mama 5. I Enter the System 6. The System Gives Me Orders and Things Begin to Come to Life 7. I Am Hospitalized
  • the System Persists and I Risk Losing Mama 8. I Sink into Unreality 9. After a Beneficial Trip and Acute Crisis Confounds Me 10. My First Double: The Little Monkey 11. The Miracle of the Apples 12. I Learn to Know My Body 13. Mama's Other Patients
  • All My Self-Destructive Energies Are Unleashed 14. Mama Is Busy with Baby Ezekiel 15. I Enter Mama's Body and Am Reborn in Ezekiel 16. I Become Firmly Established in Wonderful Reality Part II: The Interpretation 17. 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 18. 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 19. Conclusions / Value of Symbolic Realization in Formative Mechanicms of the Ego / A Dynamic Conception of the Process of Disintegration in Schizophrenia Bibliography Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA55113054
  • ISBN
    • 0452011337
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    192 p.
  • Size
    18 cm
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