| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-359) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: The oldest branch of medicine -- The mind at war: healing the broken. The shadow of a great rock ; The night nurse ; Rivers -- Healers of the mind: priest, physician, and psychotherapist. And the god left ; Bearings in the dark ; Big Sur ; Sowings -- The healing arts: hero, artist, and storyteller. Island and quest ; They looked to their songs ; Ashen roots ; The eleventh hour -- Epilogue: Chesapeake. |
| Summary |
"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest battlefields of the twentieth century to her own experience with bipolar disease, Jamison demonstrates how extraordinary psychotherapy can be when administered properly and explores the clinical reality that healing the mind requires, for both doctor and patient. She draws on the cases of W.H.R. Rivers, the renowned doctor who treated shell-shocked WWI soldiers, on the long history of physical treatments for mental distress and the ancient role of religion and myth in healing, and she looks at the heroic figures in our artistic culture who have healed us as a people, such as Paul Robeson. Fires in the Dark is a beautiful meditation on the quest and adventure of true healing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History.
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Psychotherapy -- History -- 20th century.
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Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922.
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Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
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Jamison, Kay R.
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Jamison, Kay R. (OCoLC)fst00053055
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Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919. (OCoLC)fst00039560
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Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922. (OCoLC)fst00018257
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01016606
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Psychotherapy. (OCoLC)fst01081755
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MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Informational works.
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| ISBN |
9780525657170 (hardcover) |
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0525657177 (hardcover) |
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9781984898203 (trade paperback) |
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1984898205 (trade paperback) |
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9780525657187 (ebk) |
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