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This is an astonishing memoir of a young woman called only 'Renee,' whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a diamond-sharp precision that lends it an eerie power, it tells the story of Renee's long sojourn in what she calls the 'Land of Enlightenment' or 'The Country of Tibet,' and of her gradual and painstaking return to 'wonderful reality...more
Published November 1st 1994 by Plume (first published 1947)
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Aug 17, 2009Cooper Cooper rated it really liked it
This is the story of Renée, a young Swiss woman suffering from schizophrenia. At age five she first began to experience what she called Unreality. Initially Unreality happened only occasionally, as when her playmates suddenly seemed to swell or shrink until she didn’t recognize them, or when the nearby school took on the aspect of a prison, or when the local valley seemed to stretch like an endless desert suffused with a brilliant, oppressive light. In time, however, Unreality appeared more oft...more
I learned a whole lotta nothing regarding 'formative ego mechanisms in the psychotherapy of a schizophrenic.' Huh? What? There was something about apples and then suddenly Renee is healed on page 89. On the positive side of things I found this book in the bottom of a box of old records so it was free. Score, sort of.
Sep 04, 2012Bri Fidelity rated it liked it
Shelves: read-in-2012-female, read-in-2012-overall, psych, autobiographical, memoirs-of-madness
Worth reading - and re-reading - for Renee's chilling, carefully-drawn descriptions of her increasingly eerie inner world:
The recreation period at school was often a source of the unreal feeling. I kept close to the fence as though I were indeed a prisoner and watched the other pupils shouting and running about in the school yard. They looked to me like ants under a bright light. The school building became immense, smooth, unreal, and an inexpressible anguish pressed in on me. I fancied that the
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Nov 14, 2012Erika rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The story of Renée, a girl suffering from psychosis, and how she was treated with a modified psychoanalytic method. After identifying the deprivations Renée experienced in early life Sechehaye started working using Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development and Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development to achieve a better, healthier outcome of the development stages and overcome the original frustration that lead to her Ego's disintegration. A very demanding method, but apparently a successful on...more
May 11, 2014Sarah Leatherwood rated it really liked it
The first part of the book was great. It was the actual memoir from Renee that delved into her mind as a schizophrenic. I skimmed through the last 40 pages or so because all it contained was the case notes from her psychoanalyst. It was really jarring to go from this deeply personal account to a cold, clinical description of the illness with a lot of medical jargon. I liked the book a lot overall though.
Mar 22, 2010Joseph rated it really liked it · review of another edition
this was a book written by a very insightful woman/girl. it's almost strange how she captured the nature of her illness. her analyst amazed me at her process with the patient. the explanation at the end about the patient's ego disintegration was interesting and made me feel like i was in grad school again. however, at times it did seem a little bit like mental masturbation. also, i wonder about the role of medication with this girl/woman at the time. all in all, a fascinating read.
Jun 19, 2017Rose Rodriguez rated it it was amazing
Written from the perspective of a young girl losing her grasp on reality, this may a difficult read to follow along at times. In itself, though, it is a bit therapeutic...not just for those with schizophrenia, but any other debilitating mental illness as well. The book actually helped me through depression a long time ago.
While I'm sure the girl's account of her experience is by all means accurate it wasn't necessarily interesting, which I suppose she can't be faulted for. The analysis at the end of the book seemed a bit dated and perhaps a bit too Freudian, which was disappointing. All in all it just wasn't for me.
I really liked this book. Not sure how useful it is from a clinical standpoint, but for me it was a very interesting to read the first-hand account of someone dealing with extreme mental illness. Very quick and enjoyable read
Valuable for the detailed, almost visionary descriptions of how light and space and time appeared to her when she was most lost.
Mar 15, 2017Donna rated it liked it
A striking memoir by a young woman who has been treated by psychoanalysis for schizophrenia. The setting is France and it was initially published in 1951, and the psychoanalyst who writes up a case interpretation at the end apparently treated her much earlier than then, my guess is in the 40s. The approaches of Freud and Piaget are used heavily in the interpretation of her illness and approach to treatment.
Renee's memoir in the beginning sounds very much like it was influenced by the interpreta...more
This book has its moments. The diagnosis of schizophrenia is almost certainly wrong. It sounds like the patient had psychotic depression and would have been spared a lot of suffering if she had gotten a good course of electroconvulsive therapy. However, regardless of the underlying diagnosis, the book has some first-hand descriptions of catatonic psychosis that are both eloquent and revealing, and that is a very rare thing. Most people nowadays are either effectively treated before they reach th...more
Apr 26, 2015Maria Teresa rated it liked it · review of another edition
Through this book I got a deeper insight into how patients with Schizophrenia experience hallucinations and the other symptoms of this disorder, which are difficult to imagine from textbooks. The only aspect I didn't enjoy much was the psychoanalytic therapy, because from my point of view it seemed as Renee was too much dependent on the therapist for everything and I got the impression that she recovered from the illness not because of therapy, but because of the natural course of the illness. T...more
Jul 22, 2013Terri rated it it was amazing
Shelves: non-fiction, psychology, biography-autobiography-memoirs
I am glad I saw this on Goodreads and read it. Renee tells the story of her illness in a way that is very powerful and engaging. The way she describes what is happening and her thoughts and feelings are amazing. It really gives the reader a glimpse into psychosis in a way other books on the subject don't.
The Interpretation section of the book however, is a bit of a challenging read, steeped deep in Freudian thinking. Its greatest fault IMO is that it doesn't give a time frame so one cannot gaug...more
Feb 10, 2013Nikki Noey rated it it was amazing
Before starting, I should have hit some psychology books to brush up. Still, there was a lot to take from Renee's recollections of her struggle with schizophrenia. The way she described her illness was both harrowing, and eye opening. The glimpse into mid 20th century psychology is obvious, given the deeply Freudian language her analyst used to describe her treatment. Whether the treatment was outdated or not, it clearly helped Renee. This was a fascinating read because of the view of a skewed p...more
A girl with pretty severe schizophrenia is able to recall and articulate her experience of psychological decompensation after she has not only returned to stability, but is in remission from the illness. This insider's view of schizophrenia is very rare in what it is and very powerful. Her psychoanalyst's afterword is, not surprisingly, pretty heady and may not be interesting to someone who hasn't studied psychology extensively. (I found it hugely fascinating!)
Although there is clearly a lot missing from the autobiographical section of the book it still gives a clear perspective of what life with schizophrenia is really like. The analysis and treatments described are all completely out of date but probably still worth reading just to see how much our understanding of schizophrenia and psychology in general has changed. An updated interpretation and more information on the later years of Renee's life would be interesting.
Aug 07, 2007Jeremy rated it did not like it
Shelves: psychology, essay-memoir
Perhaps becuase this book is told mainly (their was some help from her therapist) from the point of veiw of the actual mentally disturbed/ill girl it has little narrative coherence. It does not make for easy reading, and though they may have intended it to be that way I believe it was a poor choice.
Jun 19, 2016Carla rated it did not like it
Shelves: french-literature, la-2, mental-illness, memoir
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Sep 05, 2008Christian Lipski rated it really liked it
A true first-person account of what happens within the mind of the schizophrenic. Renee details what she felt, imagined, saw, during her sickness and recovery. Followed by a psychiatric analysis of the period, this is a fascinating book for those who want to know more about the experience of mental illness.
Sep 06, 2007Alexandra rated it it was amazing
Recommends it for: people interested in crazy people
I read this a long time ago, but it's the first 'crazy person memoir' I read, which is now probably my favorite sort of book there is. And this one is great because it's actually written by a person who went through serious mental illness and came out the other side. There is also a lot of info in it from her therapist too.
It was a nice book. It pictured the mere idea of what an schizophrenic person undergoes. I didn't read the interpretation part since it is outdated. Overall, the book is a nice piece of literature to read and learn a little from it.
I also believe that the translation had some issues.
Incredible. Some very hardcore psychology, hard for a layman to follow, but some unbelievable experiences documented regarding the disintegration of the Self, the Ego, and the healing of a mind previously unable to decipher the difference between the 'world without' and the 'world within.'
Oct 16, 2013Hadorah Freckles rated it really liked it
excellent. a true testimony of the human spirit in the will to live and endure and recover from Scizophrenia, no matter how torturous and chaotic the uncontrollable storm was, mentally, physically, and emotionally. fascinating. absolute must read.
Dec 27, 2007Jacki rated it liked it
Recommends it for: people that are curious about the human mind
I have a version of this book from 1951, complete with an analysis from a Freudian Psychologist. It's hard to fathom the things that this girl went through--the world that she lived in--because of the severity of the case. It's a sort of parallel universe with consciousness in both worlds.
Jul 05, 2008Kate rated it liked it
I really wanted to like this book, based on the title. Maybe it was due to the translation from the French, maybe because the author was schizophrenic, but the whole thing felt very disjointed to me.
Fine
Aug 11, 2007Ted rated it really liked it
A truly astonishing story, and one you can't ever forget. Everyone who has any interest in mental illness or the depths of the mind should read this book.
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Zero Stars. Yet another challenging piece of material...This year's PD isn't going quite as smoothly as it has in the past...sigh
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Dec 04, 2012Ryan Young rated it liked it
excellent first half, where we get the recollections of the afflicted. don't even bother reading the freudian analysis of the situation though. totally and completely hocus pocus.
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“For me, madness was definitely not a condition of illness; I did not believe that I was ill. It was rather a country, opposed to Reality, where reigned an implacable light, blinding, leaving no place for shadow; an immense space without boundary, limitless, flat; a mineral, lunar country, cold as the wastes of the North Pole. In this stretching emptiness, all is unchangeable, immobile, congealed, crystallised. Objects are stage trappings, placed here and there, geometric cubes without meaning.
People turn weirdly about, they make gestures, movements without sense; they are phantoms whirling on an infinite plain, crushed by the pitiless electric light. And I - I am lost in it, isolated, cold, stripped purposeless under the light.” — 2 likes
“During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.” — 1 likes
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