出版社: Hachette Books
副标题: My Journey Through Madness
出版年: 2007-8-7
页数: 340
定价: 24.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781401301385
内容简介 · · · · · ·
From Publishers Weekly
In this engrossing memoir, Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Southern California, demonstrates a novelist's skill of creating character, dialogue and suspense. From her extraordinary perspective as both expert and sufferer (diagnosis: Chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation; prognosis: Grave), Saks carries the rea...
From Publishers Weekly
In this engrossing memoir, Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Southern California, demonstrates a novelist's skill of creating character, dialogue and suspense. From her extraordinary perspective as both expert and sufferer (diagnosis: Chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation; prognosis: Grave), Saks carries the reader from the early little quirks to the full blown falling apart, flying apart, exploding psychosis. Schizophrenia rolls in like a slow fog, as Saks shows, becoming imperceptibly thicker as time goes on.- Along the way to stability (treatment, not cure), Saks is treated with a pharmacopeia of drugs and by a chorus of therapists. In her jargon-free style, she describes the workings of the drugs (getting med-free, a constant motif) and the ideas of the therapists and physicians (psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, cardiologist, endocrinologist). Her personal experience of a world in which she is both frightened and frightening is graphically drawn and leads directly to her advocacy of mental patients' civil rights as they confront compulsory medication, civil commitment, the abuse of restraints and the absurdities of the mental care system. She is a strong proponent of talk therapy (While medication had kept me alive, it had been psychoanalysis that helped me find a life worth living). This is heavy reading, but Saks's account will certainly stand out in its field.
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From Booklist
At eight years old, Saks began suffering hallucinations and obsessive fears of being attacked. An adolescent experimentation with drugs provoked her parents to enroll her in a drug treatment program. But Saks' incredible self-control masked the fact that she was suffering from a debilitating mental illness. By the time she entered graduate school at Oxford University, her symptoms were so severe—including full-blown psychotic episodes and suicidal fantasies—that she was hospitalized. Through Oxford, law school at Yale, and a move to Los Angeles to work in the law school of the University of California, Saks struggled mightily to balance her ambitions with her illness, which was eventually diagnosed as schizophrenia. Never wanting to concede to her mental illness, Saks founds calm and comfort in a rigorous work routine. An analyst characterized her as having three lives: as Elyn, as Professor Saks, and as the Lady of the Charts mental patient. As Saks battled to get off medication and leave behind the Lady of the Charts, she fought for the rights of mental patients, and came to terms with her own limitations. Bush, Vanessa
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
Elyn R. Saks is a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. She is a research clinical associate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Saks lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Will.
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一言难尽的精神分裂症
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Written By Elyn R.Saks 精神分裂症意味着什么?有人会毫不犹豫的告诉你三个字“神经病”,有些人则会斩钉截铁的说道“治不好”“人一辈子废了”“只能被关在医院里”…这似乎就是人们对精神分裂症及其他精神障碍第一反应的常态。 精神分裂症作为在今日仍困扰医学界的难题,没... (展开)#读书笔记# 392 4.5
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流弊!牛津学哲学,耶鲁学法学,再拿个精神分析博士,南加州大学终身教职,女版纳什啊。看起来她病情控制的比纳什要好些? 出于“为精神病人正名”的目的写作本书,自曝病史隐私,我倒是震惊于竟然她一直能极大程度的保留隐私。 不理解药物比较有效的控制了病情的前提下,为什么一直... (展开)> 更多书评 29篇
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0 有用 尼莫忽瞒也 2023-01-06 04:21:40 南非
It is an unequivocal 5-star book. Maybe there is seldom someone who suffers a combination of unfortune like Elyn. On the basis of her own strong will, she is also lucky to get help from others. When I... It is an unequivocal 5-star book. Maybe there is seldom someone who suffers a combination of unfortune like Elyn. On the basis of her own strong will, she is also lucky to get help from others. When I read this memoir, my emotion goes up and down with its sentences. I know that everybody in the world, no matter who you are, is facing a long road. (展开)
1 有用 痴人 2015-11-13 05:32:16
what a struggle.
0 有用 麦麦 2022-06-24 17:59:53
补码。 a lifelong battle or struggle.
0 有用 phageous 2020-02-09 06:45:53
读这本书是出于功课的目的,试图对schizophrenia有更深的了解。这本书更多是一种记录,记录疾病的发生,粗暴的治疗过程,境况的起起伏伏,自身态度的变化,直到最后学会与疾病共处,找到属于自己的人生。作者的个人能力应该是非常出色的,因为她在与疾病斗争的同时,获得了非常惊人的学术成就,但她在面对疾病时的幼稚,无知,不理智与彷徨,让我多少可以感受与代入。 不管什么样的人生,健康的还是疾患的,it'... 读这本书是出于功课的目的,试图对schizophrenia有更深的了解。这本书更多是一种记录,记录疾病的发生,粗暴的治疗过程,境况的起起伏伏,自身态度的变化,直到最后学会与疾病共处,找到属于自己的人生。作者的个人能力应该是非常出色的,因为她在与疾病斗争的同时,获得了非常惊人的学术成就,但她在面对疾病时的幼稚,无知,不理智与彷徨,让我多少可以感受与代入。 不管什么样的人生,健康的还是疾患的,it's all about the choices。What you can afford, what you have to give up. (展开)
0 有用 贝尔 2019-07-15 12:39:36
She is really an exception to many rules. 最后的话感触颇深,“my good fortune lies in having found my life.” 不知道能不能见到精分被cure的那一天?至少希望更多病人能find their life吧。
0 有用 RunningOnEmpty 2024-05-31 20:05:57 德国
是一个极其不幸又极其幸运的人。
0 有用 Ed Carfield 2023-12-28 22:29:11 浙江
Brilliantly touching.
0 有用 a布 2023-09-17 03:00:03 美国
世界没有那么单一
0 有用 尼莫忽瞒也 2023-01-06 04:21:40 南非
It is an unequivocal 5-star book. Maybe there is seldom someone who suffers a combination of unfortune like Elyn. On the basis of her own strong will, she is also lucky to get help from others. When I... It is an unequivocal 5-star book. Maybe there is seldom someone who suffers a combination of unfortune like Elyn. On the basis of her own strong will, she is also lucky to get help from others. When I read this memoir, my emotion goes up and down with its sentences. I know that everybody in the world, no matter who you are, is facing a long road. (展开)
0 有用 na 2022-10-01 12:51:23 广东
特别特别特别鼓舞 特别心疼 人心真的很强大