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Diez años después de su análisis con Sigmund Freud, la poeta Hilda Doolittle se sumergió en las notas que había tomado luego de cada sesión y escribió Tributo a Freud. Una joya literaria y psicoanalítica: se trata del primer testimonio publicado de un análisis, pero además narrado por una de las voces poéticas más importantes del siglo XX.
H. D. nos ofrece un retrato de época—el avance del nazismo, la amenaza de la guerra, los estragos...
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Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.
"Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind." So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle's fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery. Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique understanding of...
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Finally, the Diary Book, where we find the author's everyday life, his particularities and reflections that colours the happenings of his daily life. What to say about this writing that many times seems to be unreal for the reader, but that in João Rosa de Castro's experience appears to have much meaning? The reader is not up to decipher the enigmas nor understand them, but enjoy the words of the writer's intimacy that lead us to seversal situations...
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We all run from something, but do we have to leave?
Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives...
5) City Parks
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Catie Marron's City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world's most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them.
Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time's fleeting nature and the changing face of New...
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A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it's like to be an immigrant in America.
America would not be America without its immigrants. This anthology, adapted from storytelling event "This Alien Nation," captures firsthand the past and present of immigration in all its humor,...
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Attilio Stajano est volontaire dans l'unité de soins palliatifs d'un hpital bruxellois. À travers les personnes qu'il rencontre au sein de ce service, mais aussi à travers sa propre expérience de la fin de vie, il nous donne à voir des histoires et des sensibilités très différentes, qui ont pourtant toutes un trait commun: à la fin, quand les gestes et les mots se font rares, il ne reste que l'amour. «On sort de la lecture de ce livre convaincus...
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Une quête au bonheur sous forme de témoignage suite à un burn-out au travail.
« Et voilà ! J'ai signé mon sixième arrêt ! Pas de mort, je vous rassure ! Sinon je ne serais pas en train d'écrire ceci. Mon sixième arrêt de travail consécutif… Que m'est-il arrivé ? Que s'est-il passé ? Pourquoi moi ? Qu'ai-je fait ? Qui suis-je ? Que suis-je ? O vais-je ? D'o je viens ? Voilà tout ce qui trotte dans ma tête depuis maintenant six...
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In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous, or infamous, and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's elite. Ginsberg, fresh from his first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico, was eager to promote the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic use. Thus, "America's most conspicuous beatnik" was...
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"A deeply felt literary memoir of one man's journey to redemption through vision loss, alcoholism, and the burden of a family legacy. Born to the author Peter Matthiessen, young Lucas traveled through life believing himself a disappointment to his famousfather. From an early age, Lucas was exposed to the fanciful ideas of his parent's group of renowned bohemians as well as to their addictive pastimes. Within the shadow of his father's professional...
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