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)

Avsnitt(99)

KGNU Special: "Broke In America", Preview w Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox

KGNU Special: "Broke In America", Preview w Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox

This interview is a special KGNU pre-publication interview (the book comes out in February 2021 from BenBella Books) of 'Broke In America. The authors, Joanne Samuel Goldblum, (@jgoldblum), founder of...

10 Dec 202054min

The Biden-Harris Administration, Climate, with John Kerry, On Board

The Biden-Harris Administration, Climate, with John Kerry, On Board

We can only hope, going forward from increasingly alarming climate change horrors of the past few years, that the Biden-Harris administration will make climate change a top policy concern after COVID1...

26 Nov 202021min

Scott Myers Lipton: Note From Us To #BidenHarris On Anti-Poverty

Scott Myers Lipton: Note From Us To #BidenHarris On Anti-Poverty

Five years on from this interview, it should NOT be necessary to remind people that with #COVID19, poverty and inequality are at record levels. Through the roof, they are, as foodbanks around the coun...

19 Nov 202028min

It's Such an Interesting Moment, Says Biden Biographer, Evan Osnos

It's Such an Interesting Moment, Says Biden Biographer, Evan Osnos

On Election eve, Claudia Cragg speaks for @KGNU with Evan Osnos @eosnos about his book about Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Candidate for The Democratic Party. Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. ...

3 Nov 202024min

Universal Suffrage a US Given - NOT in Indian Country, says Jean Reith Schroedel

Universal Suffrage a US Given - NOT in Indian Country, says Jean Reith Schroedel

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks with Jean Reith Schroedel about her new book, Voting in Indian County: The View from the Trenches. Schroedel is professor emerita of political science at Claremont G...

21 Okt 202036min

All Politics is Local, and Now More Than Ever, Says Heather Lende

All Politics is Local, and Now More Than Ever, Says Heather Lende

Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) talks here to Heather Lende, (@HeatherLende) a New York Times bestselling author who writes about her hometown -- Haines, Alaska, She has been discussing what community m...

15 Okt 202032min

Harvard's Planetary Planetary Health Alliance - Dr Sam Myers

Harvard's Planetary Planetary Health Alliance - Dr Sam Myers

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Samuel Myers of the Harvard Planetary Health Alliance. In a recent article he wrote for The Lancet with his colleague, Howard Frumkin, Myers states that, o...

9 Okt 202033min

Why Women Have To Do It For Themselves, Getting Better Healthcare

Why Women Have To Do It For Themselves, Getting Better Healthcare

Claudia Cragg speaking for @KGNU to @Rosemarie_Day1 on #Women and #Healthcare #Obamacare and her new book Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare Rosemarie Day ...

8 Okt 202030min

Populärt inom Politik & nyheter

svenska-fall
p3-krim
aftonbladet-krim
flashback-forever
rss-krimstad
rss-sanning-konsekvens
spar
rss-vad-fan-hande
motiv
aftonbladet-daily
rss-krimreportrarna
rss-flodet
olyckan-inifran
grans
rss-frandfors-horna
politiken
blenda-2
dagens-eko
krimmagasinet
rss-aftonbladet-krim