Introduction; 1. The Beast in White’s Jungle: Manic-Depressive Illness; 2. ‘I am a schizophrene’: Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White’s Stories of Self; 3. Masterplots: Psychoanalysis and Catholicism; 4. An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictional Stories of Self; Epilogue: Composing a Self.