Renee (4)

This was a very interesting read. The latter part of the book was a little hard to understand, being an analyst's point of view full of technical terminology. But what Renee wrote was very very interesting indeed. I have to admit that schizophrenia is something I have always been curious about but have never really read up on the subject, so to "live" it through Renee was immensely informative. Reading the first reality distortions, to the gradual descent into unreality, learning about the show more System that so tightly governed Renee's every action and thought... And then learning how she was able to slowly meet reality again and the methods taken to make that possible. It was a wonderful insight. show less

Read this for Renee's autobiography, not her psychiatrist's analysis, which takes up the second half of the book; Dr. Sechehaye's ideas about the cause of schizophrenia have been disproven completely in the past twenty years.

Good reading if you like the subject matter. The latter part of the book has a lot of technical terms from Freudian theory.