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Authors [Insane ] --- Fous littéraires --- Geesteszieken in de literatuur --- Literature and mental illness --- Literatuur en geestesziekten --- Littérature et aliénisme --- Littérature et folie --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Littérature et psychoses --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales et littérature --- Mental illness and literature --- Mentally ill in literature --- Poets [Insane ] --- Poètes aliénés --- Écrivains aliénés --- American prose literature --- Autobiography --- Literature and mental illness. --- Mentally ill women --- Mentally ill --- Psychiatric hospital patients --- Women and literature --- Women patients --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Biography --- In literature. --- History. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Geesteszieke vrouwen --- History
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How do you write your life story when readers expect you not to make sense? How do you write a case history that makes sense when, face to face with schizophrenia, your ability to tell a diagnostic story begins to fall apart? This book examines work in several genres of life writing–autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction–focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and ‘treat’ people who have received that diagnosis. Challenging the romanticized connection between literature and madness, Life Writing and Schizophrenia explores how writers who hear voices and experience delusions write their identities into narrative, despite popular and medical representations of schizophrenia as chaos, violence, and incoherence. The study juxtaposes these narratives to case histories by clinicians writing their encounters with those diagnosed with schizophrenia, encounters that call their own narrative authority and coherence into question.
Schizophrenia --- Literature and mental illness. --- Mentally ill in literature. --- Autobiography. --- Schizophrenia. --- Dementia praecox --- Schizophrenic disorders --- Psychoses --- Schizotypal personality disorder --- Mentally ill as literary characters --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism --- Technique
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