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Mockingbird Years a Life in and Out of Therapy
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Mockingbird Years a Life in and Out of Therapy Hardcover - 2000

by Emily Fox Gordon


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"During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was naive, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to beauty of spirit. In fact, I wasn't interested in being happier, but in growing more poignantly, meaningfully unhappy."Here in her own words is Emily Fox Gordon, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient, and prize-winning essayist. In lyric prose as memorable for its wicked humor as for its penetrating intelligence, she tells the story of her "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon began a three-year sojourn at the prestigious Austen Riggs sanitarium. It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, who offered judgment instead of neutrality, friendship instead of silence, and moral instruction through dialogue. Beautifully crafted and startling in its observations of the therapeutic enterprise, Mockingbird Years is a stunning debut by a major new talent.

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When I was eighteen my parents were faced with a problem: what to do with a sullen, disorganized daughter who had failed to graduate high school and who had returned home to Washington, D.C., wrists bandaged, from an extended stay with her boyfriend's mother in Indianapolis.

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  • Title Mockingbird Years a Life in and Out of Therapy
  • Author Emily Fox Gordon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date April 4, 2000
  • ISBN 9780465027279 / 046502727X
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.77 x 0.89 in (21.79 x 14.66 x 2.26 cm)
  • Reading level 1240
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychotherapy patients - United States, Gordon, Emily Fox
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99087907
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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