Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness
Author(s): Gail A. Hornstein
In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form, and so it continues today. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein's brilliant work helps us to bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding so-called 'mental illness', one another and ourselves. One which asks not 'what's wrong with you' but 'what happened to you and how did you manage to survive?'
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Gail A. Hornstein is a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA, and author of 'To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World', the widely praised biography of pioneering psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. She divides her time between Holyoke and London.
A new introduction by the author for the UK edition 1. The Voice Hearer 2. Beyond Belief 3. The Network 4. Mavericks in Maastricht 5. Who's Crazy Now? 6. Freedom Centre 7. Prisoner Abuse 8. He might be Houdini 9. Field Notes 10. Peter, who comes from Jesus 11. Philosophy of a Lunatic 12. Whitsbury House 13. Experts by Experience 14. Secrets and Hostages 15. Train Tracks 16. Free Speech 17. Trauma and Testimony 18. Displaced Persons 19. The Mental Market 20. Hunger Strikers 21. The Late Quartets 22. Hidden in Plain Sight 23. Visions Wrapped in Riddles 24. Written on the Body 25. The Wounds does the Healing 25. Finding What Works and What Doesn't Acknowledgements Notes Resources Index
General Fields
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- : PCCS Books
- : PCCS Books
- : 31 December 2011
- : 235mm X 155mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gail A. Hornstein
- : Paperback
- : UK ed
- : 616.89
- : 335