In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster in the families of patient and analyst alike are not only revived in the therapeutic relationship but, when understood, actually provide the keys to the healing process. The authors present vivid examples of...
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere h...
Franocoise Davoine Francoise Davoine William J. Hurst
"Wittgenstein's Folly" is a translation of Fran oise Davoine's "La Folie Wittgenstein." "Folly" has many meanings, referring to the "madness" of the fool, as well as to the madness of what we call the "mentally ill." "Folly" is linked with the fools of medieval plays, with the fools of Renaissance satires, and with the folly that speaks as a woman in Erasmus's "Praise of Folly." In this book by Francoise Davoine, "folly" often refers to the madness of those isolated by historical catastrophes that have not been processed across generations, and which can only be studied by exploring the...
"Wittgenstein's Folly" is a translation of Fran oise Davoine's "La Folie Wittgenstein." "Folly" has many meanings, referring to the "madness" of ...
What is common among mad people, good intelligentsia and children? What is common among Rabele and Wittgenstein, Arteau and Spentiger, Cartecious and Cantor, Homer and japanese theatre No? Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere come up against them as they track divergencies, deviations and achievements of human spirit in otherworldly and unfamiliar place of trauma and destruction. Human's personal stories are connected with History. Every time, beyond the symptoms and crises, it is revealed the unspeakable horror of war, betray and fall of social web. Their understanding in the prompt of...
What is common among mad people, good intelligentsia and children? What is common among Rabele and Wittgenstein, Arteau and Spentiger, Cartecious and ...
Francoise Davoine Franocoise Davoine Judith Miller
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Francoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange voyage across several centuries and countries, in which patients, fools, and the actors of medieval farces rise up from the past along with great thinkers who represent the author's own philosophical...
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Francoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real a...
Francoise Davoine Franocoise Davoine Judith Miller
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Francoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange voyage across several centuries and countries, in which patients, fools, and the actors of medieval farces rise up from the past along with great thinkers who represent the author's own philosophical...
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Francoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real a...
