Autobiography of a Schizophrenic , published in 1951, is one of the earliest
examples of the fictional mental breakdown memoir written in English. Its
unknown author should also be considered prophetic of the anti-psychiatry
movement that would flourish a decade later in the 1960s. The anonymous author
trusts to Christian salvation rather than humanism or nihilism, and thinks faith
in God the schizophrenic's only secure remedy.
Anonymous
(1951) Autobiography of a Schizophrenic (n.p.; printed
by
J. Baker, Bristol
).
2.
Bateson, G.
(1962) Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of his
Psychosis, 1830—1832
(London: The Hogarth
Press).
3.
Baynes, H.G.
(1949) Mythology of the Soul: A Research into the Unconscious
from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings
(London:
Methuen).
4.
Bleuler, E.
(1950) Dementia Praecox; or, The group of
Schizophrenias (New York:
International Universities Press); first
English translation of the German book, originally published in
1911.
5.
Boyers, R.
and
Orrill, R.
(1972) Laing and Anti-Psychiatry (
Harmondsworth:
Penguin).
6.
Butscher, E.
(1976) Sylvia Plath, Method and Madness (
New York: Seabury
Press).
7.
Chung, M.C.
,
Fulford, K.W.M.
and
Graham, G.
(2007) Reconceiving Schizophrenia (
Oxford: Oxford University
Press).
8.
Goffman, E.
(1961) Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental
Patients and Other Inmates (Garden City,
NY: Anchor Books).
9.
Gorman, M.
(1956) Every Other Bed
(Cleveland: World
Publishing).
10.
Jackson, S.
(1951) Hangsaman
(London: V.
Gollancz).
11.
Kesey, K.
(1962) One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: ANove
l (London: Marion
Boyars ).
12.
Kotowicz, Z.
(1997) R. D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry
(London:
Routledge).
13.
Laing, R.D.
(1960) The Divided Self: A Study of Sanity and Madness
(London: Tavistock
Publications ).
14.
Lemert, E.M.
(1951) Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory
of Sociopathic Behavior (New York:
McGraw-Hill).
15.
Macalpine, I.
and
Hunter, R.A.
(1953) The Schreber Case: A Contribution to Schizophrenia,
Hypochondria, and Psychosomatic Symptom-formation (New
York: n. p.).
16.
Macalpine, I.
and
Hunter, R.A.
(1956) Schizophrenia 1677: A Psychiatric Study of an
Illustrated Autobiographical Record of Demoniacal Possession
(London : William Dawson
& Sons).
17.
Moore, W.L.
(1955) The Mind in Chains: The Autobiography of a
Schizophrenic (Chicago:
Exposition Press).
18.
Murray, N.
(2003) Memoirs of a Schizophrenic Goddess (
Los Angeles:
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19.
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(1950) Schizophrenic Art: Its Meaning in Psychotherapy
(London: William
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20.
Navratil, L.
(1994) Schizophrene Dichter
(Frankfurt am Main:
Fischer Taschenbuch).
21.
Ogdon, J.A.H.
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t (London: Bodley
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22.
Plath, S.
(1963) The Bell Jar
(London:
Heinemann).
23.
Stevenson, A.
,
Merwin, D.
,
Murphy, R.
and
Myers, L.
(1989) Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (
London:
Faber).
24.
Sullivan, H.S.
(1950) Schizophrenia as a Human Process (reprinted 1962;New York: W. W.
Norton).
25.
Szasz, T.S.
(1961) The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of
Personal Conduct (New York:
Dell).
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Tantam, D.
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G. E. Berrios
and
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