Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl The True Story of "Renee"

by Sechehaye, Marguerite; Conroy, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780452011335
• ISBN10: 0452011337
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Plume

Table of Contents

Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl Translator's Preface
Foreword
Introduction

Part I: The Story

1. Appearance of the First Feelings of Unreality

2. The Struggle Against Unreality Begins

3. Riquette

4. I Go into Psychoanalysis and Find a Mama

5. I Enter the System

6. The System Gives Me Orders and Things Begin to Come to Life

7. I Am Hospitalized; the System Persists and I Risk Losing Mama

8. I Sink into Unreality

9. After a Beneficial Trip and Acute Crisis Confounds Me

10. My First Double: The Little Monkey

11. The Miracle of the Apples

12. I Learn to Know My Body

13. Mama's Other Patients; All My Self-Destructive Energies Are Unleashed

14. Mama Is Busy with Baby Ezekiel

15. I Enter Mama's Body and Am Reborn in Ezekiel

16. I Become Firmly Established in Wonderful Reality

Part II: The Interpretation

17. Stages in Ego Disintegration / Development of the Pathological Perception of Reality / Defense Mechanisms of the Psychotic Ego / Oral Sources of the Feeling of Reality / New Trauma amd Massive Regression of the Ego to the Fetal Phase

18. Stages in Ego Reconstruction / Symbolic Realization of the Fetal Phase as the Beginning of Ego Reconstruction / Creation of a New "Imago" / Imitative Process in the Service of Ego Formation / Construction of the Body Ego / Affective Bases in the Structuration of the Real

19. Conclusions / Value of Symbolic Realization in Formative Mechanicms of the Ego / A Dynamic Conception of the Process of Disintegration in Schizophrenia

Bibliography
Index