Mother Folly - A Tale

Zusatztext "Françoise Davoine's unique, vibrant tale of folly's journey takes us on many paths, and in doing so, shows us folly's place in history and its startling and painful resonances in the consulting room. Simply brilliant." Informationen zum Autor Françoise Davoine is a writer, psychoanalyst, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Klappentext Fran¿se Davoine is a writer, psychoanalyst, and professor at the ¿ole des Hautes ¿udes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Zusammenfassung A fictionalized hybrid of personal memoir, case studies, dream sequences, and theoretical reflection, this book on madness, trauma and psychiatry uses a fictional form to engage with psychotic experience and to make the case for a less mechanized, more humane treatment of "fools and madmen."

Product details

• Authors: Francoise Davoine, Françoise Davoine
• Assisted by: Judith G Miller (Translation), Judith G. Miller (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2014
• EAN: 9780804782784
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8278-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries