The Legendary Joanne Greenberg Revisited

The Legendary Joanne Greenberg Revisited

When our younger son finished reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar some years ago, he commented that it was not only an extraordinary literary work but also, of course, a source for rare insight into the complications of mental illness. This reminded me of a conversation (not so much a formal interview, you understand) I had a few years ago with the fabulous and extraordinary author, Joanne Greenberg, who as Hannah Green wrote I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. This work is a fictionalized depiction of Joanne Greenberg's own treatment experience decades ago at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, during which she was in psychoanalytic treatment with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. The book takes place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at a time when Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Clara Thompson were establishing the basis for the interpersonal school of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, focusing specifically, though by no means exclusively, on the treatment of schizophrenia. Greenberg has written that :- "I wrote [I Never Promised You a Rose Garden] as a way of describing mental illness without the romanticisation that it underwent in the sixties and seventies when people were taking LSD to simulate what they thought was a liberating experience. During those days, people often confused creativity with insanity. There is no creativity in madness; madness is the opposite of creativity, although people may be creative in spite of being mentally ill." (From the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy website)

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Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect

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10 Loka 201913min

Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing

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7 Loka 201934min

Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?

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The news cycle rarely passes these days without negative news of Russia and, sadly for the people of that region, Ukraine. What about the people? Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Caroline...

2 Loka 201942min

From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves

From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves

For this show, Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Jason DeParle (@JasonDeParle) a veteran reporter for The New York Times, about his new book, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves (Viking, 1s...

12 Syys 201929min

Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)

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In Shanthi Sekaran's, 'Lucky Boy, Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's d...

20 Elo 201914min

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard

The US economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent, says Ted Howard in conversation here with Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg). His new book, The Making of a Democratic Economy, written with ...

7 Elo 201937min

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Ran Poliakine, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. In 2007, Poliakine founded Powermat Technologies, a company that utilized inductiv...

17 Heinä 201932min

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'

On April 13, 1919, a column of British troops marched into the Jallianwala Bagh, a public garden in Amritsar, a city in Punjab, where more than 15,000 Indians had gathered for a peaceful protest again...

4 Heinä 201927min

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