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Loading... Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapyby Emily Fox Gordon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad. ( ) I could not finish this book and I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad. I hate when "self-indulgent" is used to describe art of any sort because I want people to create their art for themselves first, not who the audience might be. That said, this was the most pointless, self-indulgent piece of poo I have ever attempted to read. Maybe the end had some huge revelation, but I physically couldn't make myself finish. no reviews | add a review
"During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was naïve, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to beauty of spirit. In fact, I wasn't interested in being happier, but in growing more poignantly, meaningfully unhappy."Here in her own words is Emily Fox Gordon, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient, and prize-winning essayist. In lyric prose as memorable for its wicked humor as for its penetrating intelligence, she tells the story of her "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon began a three-year sojourn at the prestigious Austen Riggs sanitarium. It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, who offered judgment instead of neutrality, friendship instead of silence, and moral instruction through dialogue. Beautifully crafted and startling in its observations of the therapeutic enterprise, Mockingbird Years is a stunning debut by a major new talent. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)616.8914092Technology Medicine and health Diseases Diseases of nervous system and mental disorders Mental disorders Therapy PsychotherapyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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