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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Revisiting T R Reid in the Age of Coronavirus

Revisiting T R Reid in the Age of Coronavirus

REPRISE of an interview for @KGNU in which Claudia Cragg talks for with T.R. Reid who was a bureau chief in Tokyo and London for The Washington Post. His book, "The Healing of America: A Global Quest ...

1 Loka 202029min

RGB's SCOTUS Replacement as The Apotheosis of 'Religious Nationalism'

RGB's SCOTUS Replacement as The Apotheosis of 'Religious Nationalism'

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Katherine Stewart @kathsstewart about her book, 'The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.' With a sad nation still mourni...

24 Syys 202026min

Systemic Racism IS Built In To The US Through White Christian Privilege

Systemic Racism IS Built In To The US Through White Christian Privilege

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Kyathi Joshi @profkjoshi about her book 'White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America.' The United States is recognized as the ...

17 Syys 202025min

How Did China Get The Better of COVID19 and Why Can't We?

How Did China Get The Better of COVID19 and Why Can't We?

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Peter Hessler @peterhessler. @NewYorker For @KGNU we discuss here what may be learned from how China managed and appears to have controlled #Coronavirus. #...

10 Syys 202037min

Film-Maker Motaz H Matar, a Syrian and Palestinian, on His New Book

Film-Maker Motaz H Matar, a Syrian and Palestinian, on His New Book

@claudiacragg speaks here with @motazhmatar about his new book, The Pigeon Whispeer. It is a magical book which, nevertheless, raises such important issues such as hope, hopelessness, belonging, war, ...

3 Syys 202039min

Dr Carolyn L. White, The Virtual Burning Man Still Has Many Life Lessons for All

Dr Carolyn L. White, The Virtual Burning Man Still Has Many Life Lessons for All

@claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU with archeologist Dr. Carolyn White who, for over a decade, has been studying The #BurningMan and its California location. Her studies continue this year even thoug...

27 Elo 202028min

To Avoid the COVID19 Education Slide, Become a Tiger Parent?

To Avoid the COVID19 Education Slide, Become a Tiger Parent?

@claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU with Pawan Dhingra, @phdhingra1 author of Hyper Education Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough? In this book, Dr. Dhingra offers an up-cl...

20 Elo 202024min

Start Ups, Says Brad Feld, More Important Now Than Ever

Start Ups, Says Brad Feld, More Important Now Than Ever

Claudia Cragg speaks here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with Brad Feld @bfeld. He has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Vent...

13 Elo 202027min

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