Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
The True Story of "Renee"
By Marguerite Sechehaye
Foreword by Frank Conroy
By Marguerite Sechehaye
Foreword by Frank Conroy
Category: Psychology | Biography & Memoir
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Paperback $15.00
Nov 01, 1994 | ISBN 9780452011335
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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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