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by Marguerite Sechehaye; Foreword by Frank Conroy


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This is the 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." Renee moves in and out of hospitals, sometimes able to eat only tea and spinach, or apples and spinach, because "'The System forbade anything else." She regresses to a state resembling infancy, and she experiences intense despair, although she always describes her experiences with a pitiless and remarkable calm, as though she has observed herself from a great distance. And all the while she is sustained by the attention and understanding of her analyst, Marguerite Sechehaye, who has contributed an illuminating Afterword to her story. This harrowing and unforgettable work is a classic in the literature of mental illness. With a foreword by Frank Conroy.

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This is Renee's intimate story as she recounted it shortly after her recovery.

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  • Title Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of Renee
  • Author Marguerite Sechehaye; Foreword by Frank Conroy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 1994
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780452011335 / 0452011337
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 5 x 0.7 in (17.53 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Marguerite Sechehaye (1887-1964) was a Swiss psychotherapist and a pioneer in the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenics. She is the author of Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of "Renee," which chronicles one of her cases and introduced a new model in how mental illness is studied. Frank Conroy was born in 1936 and graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He was director of the prestigious Writers' Workshop. Conroy wrote an autobiography Stop-Time, published in 1967, and his collection of stories, Midair, was published in 1985. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Partisan Review.
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