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精神病文化史
从医学角度探讨精神病,研究精神病的性质、病因、治疗方法的书,已经出版过多本了。但是,在国内,还未见有一册发掘精神病的文化内涵的著作。本书意在从这一新的角度来描述此病。 作者以前写过多部有关医学与文化的书,受到广泛的好评。本书在历述古代有关精神病的“神魔说”猜想,到中世纪和理性时期的认识上的进展,直至今日近理代研究的同时,详尽描述了人们对精神病人的态度以及从作为“异类”的冷酷严刑的折磨到人道的仁慈的变化过程。 书中在展示歇斯底里、忧郁症、躁狂症等多种精神病症状时,既有医学家的严谨记述,又有文学家和艺术家的形象描绘。最为值得一提的是:本书在介绍历史上的几位患有精神病的著名天才人物的同时,还对这种人的资质与病理关系作了有趣的探讨。 -
疯狂
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject." -
Girl, Interrupted
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. -
坠落之愕
★《坠落之愕》作者曾在一家精神病院工作十年,是一名男护士,据此经历他写下了这本让全球读者感到忧伤、温暖、惊讶和心碎的作品。 ★荣获2013年英国科斯塔年度图书奖,该奖项为英国最富盛名的文学奖之一,《坠落之愕》也是近十年来首部斩获此殊荣的小说处女作。 ★以下殊荣也属于这本 与众不同的作品:2014英国国家图书奖年度流行小说;2014英国作家协会奖;2014贝蒂特拉斯克文学奖。 ★一声道别,一世告别。书写过去是一种重新体会过去的方式,是一种把尘封的记忆重新展开并一一细数的方式。我们把记忆写在纸上,因为这样它们就可以永不磨灭。 从9岁到19岁,一个男孩,深深陷入了精神分裂的泥沼;宛如一本私密日记,记述他的离别故事和自我挣脱。“每个人都有一面墙来隔离梦境和现实,而我的墙上却布满了缝隙……梦境想方设法穿墙而入,最终与现实难分彼此。 ————————————————————————————— 马修·赫姆斯是一个睿智的疯子,拥有多副面孔。他讲述着自己变成精神分裂症病人的历程,以及幼年时面对哥哥早夭所做的种种努力。他对事物有着深刻的见解,用机智风趣的语言将我们带入故事之中: 记忆渐渐消逝,正如我们一觉醒来,昨夜的梦境便在睁开双眼时悄然隐去。我的处境恰是如此。我只能忆起几个零星的片段——夜晚,奔跑,警察赶到某处。西蒙死了。我的哥哥死了。 我的精神每时每刻都在分散。我必须集中注意力,因为我想记录许多东西。我必须慢慢道来,才能解释清楚我的世界如何渐行渐缓。我还必须谈谈生活的形状和尺寸是如何形成的,以及它如何才能恰巧缩进某个狭小的东西里——比如一间房子。 我所做的一切都身不由己。他们为我制定了一个计划表。上面清楚地记载着我每天的任务。这是我的私人订制。此外,如果我未能严格遵守,便会有另一个计划表即时生效。这就是我的生活。我今年十九岁,对于我来说,唯一不用受制于人的事情就是如何讲述这个故事。所以我不会把它当成儿戏。如果你愿意相信我,那就再好不过了。 -
现代人精神病历本
他小时候是个内向的人,对黑暗十分敏感。他害怕父母、老师和警察这些权势人物,喜欢金发女人。从小到大他总是独自一人品尝和排遣着自己的孤独他用电影讲述悬念故事的时候,他实际上是在排解自己内心的紧张和惊恐。他导演的所有影片都在描述人类的恐惧心理和人性的弱点。他一生沉湎于悬疑、惊悚这一影片类型,《蝴蝶梦》《后窗》《眩晕》《群鸟》《精神病患者》等杰作一次次把人带到了噩梦般的人性深处,让人紧张而后释然。他究竟是谁……...