Fülszöveg
Retreat from Sanity
This book is nothing less than a journey into the
astonishing world of the psychotic. Almost
everybody at one time or another has been
convinced that he is "going crazy"—but what is
it really like to experience psychosis? How does
a developing psychotic perceive his environment?
What clues tell him that he is sinking into
madness? Dr. Malcolm Bowers considers these
questions through interviews with psychotic
patients and through material written by the
patients themselves—patients whose disturbances
are associated with heterosexual rejection,
psychosexual development, childbirth, or marital
crisis. In this uniquely intimate way, readers of
Retreat from Sanity will meet a group of people
who slipped out of reality and into a new
dimension of distorted perceptions and bizarre
thoughts.
"Malcolm Bowers' book stands out as a rare
collection of autobiographical, intensely felt
experiences of people about to enter the
psychotic world."
—Silvano...
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Fülszöveg
Retreat from Sanity
This book is nothing less than a journey into the
astonishing world of the psychotic. Almost
everybody at one time or another has been
convinced that he is "going crazy"—but what is
it really like to experience psychosis? How does
a developing psychotic perceive his environment?
What clues tell him that he is sinking into
madness? Dr. Malcolm Bowers considers these
questions through interviews with psychotic
patients and through material written by the
patients themselves—patients whose disturbances
are associated with heterosexual rejection,
psychosexual development, childbirth, or marital
crisis. In this uniquely intimate way, readers of
Retreat from Sanity will meet a group of people
who slipped out of reality and into a new
dimension of distorted perceptions and bizarre
thoughts.
"Malcolm Bowers' book stands out as a rare
collection of autobiographical, intensely felt
experiences of people about to enter the
psychotic world."
—Silvano Arieti, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
New York Medical College
Vissza