Index

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Berman, J. (2019), "Index", Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 361-374. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-807-020191011

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INDEX

“Absolute panic”

, 41

Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton, An (Skorczewski)

, 173–174

Affective illness

, 113

Agitated depression

, 49

Alcoholism

, 141

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)

, 251

All My Pretty Ones (Sexton, Anne)

, 195

All the Finest Girls (Styron, Alexandra)

, 74–76

Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry (Millett)

, 117

Alto Rhapsody (Brahms)

, 66–67

Ambivalence

, 114

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (Freud)

, 30

Anarchic disconnections

, 34

Anatomy of an Epidemic (Whitaker)

, 247

Andreasen, Nancy

, 8

Antagonistic biological interaction

, 182

“Anti-suicide pact”

, 134

Anticonvulsants

, 249

“Anxiety of influence”

, 94

Archaic Torso of Apollo (Rilke)

, 31

Are depression

, 29

Art therapy

, 49

Artistic creativity

, 9

Assisted suicide

, 260–263

“Assumptive world,”

, 196

At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (Frank)

, 19

Attachment theory

, 55

Auerbach, Daniel

, 140, 155

Autobiografiction

, 30

Autobiography

, 11

Autodidact in medicine

, 37

Autopathography

, 11

Aveling, Eleanor Marx

, 328–329

Avrahami, Einat

, 6

Axis I disorders

, 214

Axis II disorders

, 214

Baldwin, Marjorie L.

, 112

Balkan intensity

, 278

Ballinger, Barbara

, 200, 323

Banville, John

, 23, 156

Barnes, Julian

, 237

Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, The (Millett)

, 91–92

Bateson, Gregory

, 289

Bath, The (Cassatt)

, 176

Beckett, Samuel

, 176

Beers, Clifford

, 4, 12

Behnke, Stephen

, 285–286

Beilke, Debra

, 107–108

Bell Jar, The (Plath)

, 35, 63

“Berry, Anna,”

, 285

Berzon, Betty

, 207, 270

Bespotted (Sexton)

, 203

Between Two Worlds: Young Women in Crisis (Sexton)

, 26, 165–166, 190

“Bewildering sorrow”

, 39

Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)

, 260

Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness (Baldwin)

, 112

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud)

, 84

Beyond Words: Illness and the Limits of Expression (Conway)

, 20

“Bible of Women’s Liberation”

, (see Sexual Politics (Millett))

Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English (Hornstein)

, 6

Bibliotherapy

, 23, 50, 62

Bipolar disorder

, 10

bipolar I disorder

, 103

bipolar II disorder

, 103

in Jamison

, 123–126

Bipolar Express: Manic Depression and the Movies, The (Coleman)

, 9, 49

Blackburn, William

, 45, 71

Blaming the Brain (Valenstein)

, 247

Bloom, Harold

, 94

Blue Dreams (Slater)

, 247–251

Blue Genes (Lukas, Christopher)

, 201–202

Bly, Robert

, 336

Body, Illness, and Ethics (Frank)

, 18

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (Kernberg)

, 227

Borderline personality disorder

, 27, 29, 200, 207–209, 213, 221, 228, 233, 248

Borges, Jorge Luis

, 176

Bourdain, Anthony

, 326

“Breach of narrative promise,”

, 30, 237

Breggin, Peter

, 247

Briquet’s syndrome

, (see Hysteria)

Brooks, Peter

, 236

Browne, Ivor

, 105–106

Buchwald, Art

, 68, 264

Burroughs, Augusten

, 12

Burt, Robert A.

, 285, 318, 320

Camus, Albert

, 65–66

Capgras syndrome

, 308

Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing (Jackson)

, 300–301

Carey, Benedict

, 250, 285, 321

Carlat, Daniel

, 247

Carroll, Lewis

, 250–251

Caruth, Cathy

, 19

Cassell, Eric J.

, 6

Catch (Heller)

, 55

Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, The (Saks)

, 28–29, 283–322

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

, 135–136

Chesler, Phyllis

, 117

“Cherry Tree, The” (Slater)

, 234–236

Chiasson, Dan

, 156

Childhood sexual abuse

, 224

Churchill, Winston

, 144, 265

Churchill’s Black Dog, Kafka’s Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind (Storr)

, 9

Clark, Hilary

, 7

Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry (Szasz)

, 110

Coetzee, J.M.

, 323–324

Coleman, David

, 9, 49

Coles, Robert

, 186

Cologne-Brookes, Gavin

, 38, 68, 73, 76

“Coming out”

, 18

“Commitment hearings”

, 117

Community Mental Health Journal (Borkin)

, 115–116

“Complicated grief,”

, 47, 270

Compulsive memoirism of mentally ill

, 1–4

Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron)

, 37–38, 42, 50, 52

Conjectured madness

, 24

Conrad, Joseph

, 22, 36, 38, 220, 332

Conspiracy

, 94–95

Contagion effect

, 136–137

“Continuing bonds”

, 149–150

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief (Klass, Silverman & Nickman)

, 150

Conway, Kathlyn

, 20, 64, 67, 231

Corpus Callostomy

, 233–234

Countershame techniques

, 21, 114–115, 271

Couser, G. Thomas

, 11, 221, 249

Crack-Up, The (Fitzgerald)

, 13–15

“Creative malady,”

, 7–8, 19, 28, 333, 335–336

Creative Malady (Pickering)

, 7–9

Creativity, madness and

, 154–157

“Curing” homosexuality

, 271–273

Cyclothymia

, 122–123

Dailey, Anne C.

, 319–320

Danaher, Mallory Millett

, 82, 95–97, 100–102, 105, 116, 141, 333

“Dark Lady of American Letters”

, (see Illness as Metaphor (Sontag))

Darkness Visible (Styron)

, 4, 23–24, 29–30, 33–80, 141, 265

“Dean of American Letters”

, 8

Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve (Gilbert)

, 21

Deferred adolescence

, 260

Deinstitutionalization

, 250

Depression

, 4, 102, 113

Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark (Clark)

, 7

“Destructive symbiosis,”

, 199, 242

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

, 103

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)

, 316

Dialectical behavior therapy (D. B. T)

, 208

Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom (Berman)

, 22

Dickens, Charles

, 210, 251

Dickey James

, 195

Didion, Joan

, 208

Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)

, 337

Disgrace

, (see Shame)

Disorganization

, 287

Divided Self, The (Laing)

, 105

Divine Comedy (Dante)

, 207

“Doctors Freed/Fried”

, 315–316

“Dodo bird effect”

, 250–251

Dolphin, The (Lowell)

, 151, 156

Donaldson, Scott

, 15, 335

“Double bind,”

, 289

Double Image, The (Sexton, Anne)

, 182–184

Down syndrome (DS)

, 277–278

Dr King

, 319

“Dr. Joseph White”

, 297–301

Duhl, Frederick

, 197

Duras, Marguerite

, 329

Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning (Berman)

, 22

Eakin, Paul John

, 186

Eddy, Mary Baker

, 8

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

, 17, 76

Eliot, George

, 9

Eliot, T. S.

, 265, 279

Elms, Alan C.

, 103

Embarrassment

, (see Shame)

Empathy

, 6, 12, 25, 31, 59, 101, 136, 142, 155, 308, 335

Emperor’s New Drugs, The (Kirsch)

, 247

Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris

, 295

Epilepsy

, 27, 210, 218–226, 230–236, 238, 243–244, 249

Epilepsia

, 231

Essential softness

, 260

Etkind, Marc

, 77

“Exaggerate”

, 222

Experiments in Life-Writing (Novak)

, 30

Exuberance (Jamison)

, 120, 140, 142–145

Fake memoirs

, 11–13

Falling illness

, 226

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: How Travel Can Change the World (Solomon)

, 280–281

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Solomon)

, 28, 275–280

Feldman, Marc D.

, 232–233

Female masochism

, 87

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)

, 165

Feminism

, 167

Filicide

, 243

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

, 13–15

Flaherty, Alice W.

, 1–3, 8, 17, 48–49, 80, 143

Flying (Millett)

, 87–89

Fog of Paranoia: A Sister’s Journey Through Her Brother’s Schizophrenia, The (Rae)

, 285

45 Mercy Street (Sexton, Anne)

, 192–194

Four-point restraints

, 110, 139, 284, 314

Frank, Arthur W.

, 63, 114

Frankenstein (Shelley)

, 125

Freud, Sigmund

, 4, 8, 14, 28, 30, 42, 50, 84, 115, 138, 149, 150, 200, 216–217, 225, 242, 269, 293, 295, 298–302, 315, 320, 332

Freund, John

, 190, 198

Freudianism

, 60

Frey, James

, 11–12

Friday, Nancy

, 227

Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda

, 289, 315–316, 320

Furedi, Frank

, 326

Gabbard, Glen O.

, 296

Gary, Romain

, 65

Genet, Jean

, 85

Gilbert, Sandra M.

, 21

Girl, Interrupted (Kaysen)

, 5, 208, 244

Glenmullen, Joseph

, 247

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

, 31, 67, 112, 325–326, 333

Goffman, Erving

, 18, 63, 208

Going to Iran (Millett)

, 91–92

Golden Notebook, The (Lessing)

, 89, 109

Good Shufu, The (Slater, Tracy)

, 27, 246–247

Good Soldier, The (Ford)

, 220

Goodwin, Frederick J.

, 25, 120, 127–128, 138–139, 200

Graf, Max

, 84

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)

, 14

Greenberg, Joanne

, 28, 63, 315–316

Grief

, 148–150

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy (Worden)

, 150

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

, 325

Gynicide (Hadaller)

, 44

Hacking, Ian

, 330

Hadaller, David

, 44

Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide (Sexton)

, 26, 29, 159–203

Halsted, William

, 147

Hamilton, Ian

, 153–154

Hampl, Patricia

, 14–14

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

, 265

Hardwick, Elizabeth

, 153, 155–156

Hardy, Barbara

, 83

Hardy, Thomas

, 54–55

Harris, Martha

, 290–297, 302, 304–305, 308

Harrison, Kathryn

, 186

Hastings, Chris

, 167

Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker

, 4, 6

Heaney, Seamus

, 23

Heller, Joseph

, 55

Hemingway, Ernest

, 15, 38, 45, 64–65, 125, 195

Hemlock Society

, 324

Henke, Suzette

, 23

Hermeneutic psychoanalysis

, 287, 300–311, 320

“Hermeneutics of suspicion,”

, 31

History of English Autobiography, A (Vickers)

, 4

History of Psychiatry, A (Shorter)

, 247

“Hoax memoir”

, 12

Homophobia

, 257–260

Hornstein, Gail

, 6

Horrific depression

, 244

Hostile introject

, 43

Hotchner, A. E.

, 45, 195

House at Pooh Corner, The (Milne)

, 144

How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves (Eakin)

, 186

“How to Market this Book”

, 236–237

How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (Nuland)

, 15, 18

Hughes, Nicholas

, 160, 195

Hughes, Ted

, 160, 328

Humanistic psychological model

, 118

Humiliation

, (see Shame)

Hypatia (Steinbuch)

, 115

Hypergraphia

, 3, 210

Hypocrisy

, 148

Hypomania

, 102–105

Hysteria

, 316

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Greenberg)

, 28, 63, 315–316

Illness as Metaphor (Sontag)

, 215–216

Illness as Narrative (Jurecic)

, 4

“Illusion of Mental Illness, The”

, 117

Incest Diary, The

, 186–187

Indulgence

, 169

Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Saks)

, 287, 310

Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies, The (Avrahami)

, 6

Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, The (Solomon)

, 255

Is It Me or My Meds: Living with Antidepressants (Karp)

, 114

Jackson, Stanley W.

, 297–301

Jacob’s Room (Woolf)

, 264

Jamison, Kay Redfield

, 119

achievements

, 121–122

An Unquiet Mind

, 126–127

awards

, 120

bipolar disorder

, 123–126

contagion effect

, 136–137

Exuberance

, 120, 140, 142–145

grief

, 148–150

Manic-Depressive Illness

, 120, 127–132

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

, 120, 134–136

Nothing Was the Same

, 120, 145–148, 150, 155

using psychiatric records

, 151–153

psychiatrist for

, 137–140

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire

, 120, 122, 150–151, 154–157

“Severely Depressed. Very Quiet”

, 131–134

study of madness and creativity

, 154–157

textbook diagnosis

, 153

as therapist

, 148

Touched with Fire

, 120, 122–123

writing about family

, 140–143

“Jargon of authenticity”

, 232

Jarrell, Randall

, 65

Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (Behnke and Saks)

, 286, 308–309

Jekyll-Hyde duality

, 133

Jones, Anne Hudson

, 118

Jones, Elizabeth

, 291–293

Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue (Berman)

, 22

Jude the Obscure (Hardy)

, 54

Jurecic, Ann

, 4, 6

Kafka, Franz

, 49, 176, 320, 330–331

Kantrowitz, Judy Leopold

, 296, 311–312

Kaplan

, 302–303, 305

terminating analysis with

, 311–312

Karp, David A.

, 114

Kaysen, Susanna

, 2, 5, 208, 244

Keats, John

, 14

Keir, Sophie

, 92

Keitel, Evelyne

, 317–318

Kernberg, Otto

, 227

Kesey, Ken

, 298

Kierkegaard, Soren

, 5, 7, 237

Kirsch, Irving

, 247

Kiss, The (Harrison)

, 185–188

Klass, Dennis

, 150

Klein, Melanie

, 291–292, 295, 307

Kleinian analysis

, 291

Klonopin

, 244

Kramer, Peter

, 212

Kriegel, Leonard

, 230

Kristeva, Julia

, 265, 329

Lack of willpower

, 169

Laing, R.D.

, 105–106

Lancet, The (Jones)

, 118

Landscape of depression

, 37–38

Larry King Live (Buchwald)

, 68

Lawrence, D.H.

, 60, 84–85, 178, 262–263

Lear, Jonathan

, 335

Learning to Fall (Kriegel)

, 226–229, 230

“Leave of abstinence”

, 14

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

, 186

Lessing, Doris

, 89, 109

Levi, Primo

, 62, 80

Lie Down in Darkness (Styron)

, 37–46, 49, 54, 60

Life Studies (Lowell)

, 150, 154

Life-writing

, 11

Linehan, Marsha

, 208

Lithium

, 62, 81–83, 91, 93, 96, 100, 106–107, 111, 113–115, 118, 131–135, 137–138, 141–143, 149, 155, 162, 249, 318, 334

Loewald, Hans W.

, 203

Loony-Bin Trip, The (Millett)

, 5, 10, 24, 29–30, 81–118, 133, 141, 284–286

Lopate, Philip

, 12

Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell)

, 151

Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (Mariani)

, 151

Love, Guilt and Reparation (Klein)

, 291

Love Works Like This (Slater)

, 206, 239–240

Lowell, Robert

, 150–151

Lucidity

, 34–35

Lucratocracy

, 189

Lukas, Christopher

, 201–202

Lukas, J. Anthony

, 202

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (Slater)

, 26–27, 29, 205–206, 217–218

“Amazing Grace”

, 238–239

breach of narrative promise

, 237

Corpus Callostomy

, 233–234

ethics

, 221–222

“Exaggerate”

, 222

“How to Market this Book”

, 236–237

“Learning to Fall”

, 226–229

philosophy professor without ontological existence

, 218–221

“Sincerely, Yours”

, 231–233

supermarket incident

, 229–231

“The Cherry Tree”

, 234–236

“Three Blind Mice”

, 222–226

Mad

, 9–10

memoirs

, 4, 9–11

muse

, 8–11, 24

Madness

, 115, 127

and creativity

, 154–157

Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (Sass)

, 123

Mahl, George

, 301

Mailer, Norman

, 85–86, 115, 272

Mairs, Nancy

, 61

Malignant depression

, 54–57

Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression (Wolpert)

, 78

Maltsberger, John

, 43

Mania

, 102–105

Manic depression

, 4, 29, 83, 102

language of

, 107–108

Manic depressive disorder

, 10, 123–125

Manic-depressive illness

, 141

in Sexton

, 161–163

Manic-Depressive Illness (Goodwin & Jamison)

, 25, 120, 127–132

“Manic-depressive overtones”

, 48

Manning, Martha

, 148, 265

Mariani, Paul

, 153–154

Marionette (Slater)

, 226

Marketplace confessions

, 206

Marxism

, 85

Masking skills

, 288

Maslin, Janet

, 219–220

Mazor, Miriam

, 248

McHugh, Paul

, 147

Mead, Rebecca

, 218–219

Medina, Kate

, 236

Melancholia and Depression (Jackson)

, 300

Meltzer, Donald

, 291

Memoir (Couser)

, 11

Memoir: A History (Yagoda)

, 12

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Schreber)

, 301

Menninger, Karl

, 89

Mental disease

, 110

Mental illness

, 3, 10, 169, 244

Mental illness memoirs

, 3–4

characterizations

, 5

difference between survival stories and triumph narratives

, 20

empathy

, 6

ethical and emotional engagement

, 6

fake memoirs

, 11–13

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

, 13–15

mad memoirs

, 9–11

mad muse

, 8–11

Nuland, Sherwin

, 15–18

pathography

, 4

reason for growth of illness narratives

, 6–7

writing/righting wrong

, 21–23

Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)

, 265

Merkin, Daphne

, 228, 244, 329–330

Middlebrook, Diane Wood

, 152, 160, 175, 177–178, 180, 192, 197

Middlemarch (Eliot)

, 9

Midnight Disease, The (Flaherty)

, 2–3, 8, 48, 80

Millett, Kate

, 81–83, 119

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice

, 91–92

conspiracy

, 94–95

crisis to die

, 110–111

Flying

, 87–89

Going to Iran

, 91–92

interpreting tape-recorded conversations

, 95–98

and Ivor Browne

, 105–106

language of manic depression

, 107–108

life after The Loony-Bin Trip

, 117–118

Loony-Bin Trip, The

, 92–93, 99–100

mania

, 102–105

The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue

, 85–87

reading of other accounts of mood disorders

, 93–94

Sexual Politics

, 83–85

shame

, 111–112

Sita

, 90–91

sleeplessness

, 98–99

small prophylactic dose

, 113–115

talk therapy

, 108–109

and Thomas Szasz

, 109–110

Million Little Pieces, A (Frey)

, 11–12

Mind that Found Itself, A (Beers)

, 4

Mind-numbing drugs

, 162

Mirror Images (Sexton)

, 175, 184

A Signature Daughter

, 176–178

Domestic Violence

, 179–180

Mother–Daughter Incest

, 180–182

Twinning and Playing Nine

, 178–179

Mnemosyne

, 10

Monomania

, 233

Moral failure

, 169

Moral Intelligence of Children, The (Coles)

, 186

Mother–daughter confrontation

, 229

Mother–daughter relationship

, 26, 29, 163, 175, 177, 199, 209, 227–228, 230

Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)

, 15

Munch, Edvard

, 17

Munchausen syndrome

, 217, 213–233, 236

Muses in Greek and Roman mythology

, 10

Music and Madness (Dwyer)

, 106

My Mother/My Self (Friday)

, 227

Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)

, 65–66

Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts about Endings (Kantrowitz)

, 296

Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)

, 86

Narcissism and the Novel (Berman)

, 6

Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (Spence)

, 27, 193, 210, 222, 224, 236, 310–311

Narrative medicine

, 311

Nasar, Sylvia

, 320

Nash, John

, 52

Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, The (Cassell)

, 6

ndeup

, 274–275

“Negative Capability” concept

, 14

Nervous breakdown

, 88

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

, 118, 146

Nietzsche, Friedrich

, 154, 260, 335

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (Jamison)

, 110, 120, 134–136

“No Gun Ever Killed”

, 100–101

Nocebo effect

, 250

Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, The (Solomon)

, 27–29, 253–254

“curing” homosexuality

, 271–273

internalized mother

, 269–270

ndeup

, 274–275

poetic prose

, 266–267

psychopharmacology

, 273–274

seeking insights from literature and philosophy

, 264–265

North, Carol

, 316

Nothing Was the Same (Jamison)

, 120, 145–148, 150, 155

Novak, Julia

, 30–31

Nuland, Sherwin

, 15–18

Oates, Joyce Carol

, 125, 237

Occupational therapy

, 9

Official MBA Handbook, The (Barron)

, 189–190

“Omnipotence of thought” (Freud’s theory)

, 298–299

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film)

, 17, 81, 99, 297

Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (Slater)

, 245–246

Operation Re-Entry

, 288

Orne, Martin

, 152, 159, 163, 173

Orr, Gregory

, 337

Paglia, Camille

, 115

Paradoxical loneliness

, 294–295

Parkes, Colin Murray

, 196

Pathography

, 4, 11

Pathological or complicated grief

, 270

Pavese, Cesare

, 65

Perring, Christian

, 116, 251

Phillips, David P.

, 326

Philoctetes

, 8, 18

Pickering, George

, 7–8, 19

Placebo effect

, 250

Plath, Sylvia

, 2, 35, 61, 63–64, 65, 150, 160, 203, 222, 328–329

Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother (Slater)

, 241–245

Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering & Factitious Disorder (Feldman)

, 232

Points of Life (Sexton)

, 184–185, 186–187, 189

Polypharmacy

, 244

Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth)

, 220–221

Positive psychology movement

, 143

Post-traumatic stress disorder

, 43, 245

Postpartum mood disorder

, 2

Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy (Fromm-Reichmann)

, 316

Prisoner of Sex, The (Mailer)

, 115

Private Acts (Sexton)

, 189–190

Proclaimed sanity

, 24

Projective identification

, 307

Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue, The (Millett)

, 85–87

Prozac Backlash (Glenmullen)

, 247

Prozac Diary (Slater)

, 26, 206, 212–213, 242

traumatizing mother

, 213–217

Pseudologia fantastica

, 233

Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides) (Freud)

, 301

Psychoanalysis

, 60, 130, 267–268, 314

fundamental rule of

, 138, 293–296

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Fromm-Reichmann)

, 316

Psychoneuroses

, 8

Psychopharmacology

, 273–274

Psychosis

, 8

Psychotherapy

, 130

Psychotic transferences

, 293

Rak, Julie

, 236

“Rare torture”

, 35

Rau, Sally Millett

, 82, 95, 116

“Reader’s block,”

, 330

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

, 5, 12

Reading My Father (Styron, Alexandra)

, 68–69, 141

scandal

, 69–71

writing madness

, 71–73

“Reading oppositionally,”

, 331–332

Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis

, 295

Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography (Hawkins)

, 4

Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (Saks)

, 287, 312–315

Reich, Wilhelm

, 88

Remission society

, 19

Reparation

, 31, 291–292

Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner)

, 31

Rereading William Styron (Cologne-Brookes)

, 38

Rescue fantasy

, 47, 57, 80

Rilke’s statement

, 1, 1n1

Rituals (Sexton)

, 167–168, 170–171, 174, 177

A Father’s War Story

, 172–174

Lily Sinclair

, 168–170

Oedipal and Pre-Oedipal Desire

, 170–171

Proofreading

, 171–172

Rivers, W. H. R.

, 155

Robert Lowell: A Biography (Hamilton)

, 151

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire (Jamison)

, 25, 120, 122, 150–151, 154–155

Ross, Dan

, 58

Roth, Philip

, 220

Rudnytsky, Peter L.

, 295

Running with Scissors (Burroughs)

, 12

Ryan, Jack

, 134

Sacks, Oliver

, 134, 283

Saks, Elyn R.

, 283–284

Capgras Syndrome

, 308

“Doctors Freed/Fried”

, 315–316

Dr King

, 319

Elizabeth Jones and Martha Harris

, 291–293

failing fathers

, 306–308

“few little quirks”

, 287–290

fundamental rule of psychoanalysis

, 293–296

hidden personal element behind scholarship

, 286–287

hope for future

, 322

Interpreting Interpretation

, 310

Jekyll on Trial

, 308–309

“Joseph White”/Stanley W. Jackson

, 297–301

“Kaplan”

, 302–303, 305

“Lady of the Charts”

, 303–306

life with and without regulator

, 317–319

and Millett

, 284–286

Psychoanalytic Researcher

, 301–302

question of confidentiality

, 290

Refusing Care

, 312–315

Terminating Analysis with Kaplan

, 311–312

terminations

, 296–297

Sanity

, 105

Sass, Louis A.

, 123

Sassoon, Siegfried

, 155

Saunders, Max

, 30

Savage God: A Study of Suicide, The (Alvarez)

, 61

Schizophrenia

, 4, 29, 287, 305, 317

Schizophrenic outbursts

, 308

“Schizophrenogenic mother,”

, 289

Schreber, Daniel Paul

, 301–302

Scream, The (Munch)

, 17

Scriptotherapy

, 23

Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton (Sexton)

, 25–26, 29, 159–203

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

, 292

Seductiveness of literary theory

, 3

Selected Letters (Styron)

, 34, 69

Self-loathing

, 35

Self-Portrait in Letters, A (Sexton, Anne)

, 162, 194

Self-violence

, 44

Seligman, Martin

, 143

Set This House on Fire (Styron)

, 37, 47–52

Sex, Art, and American Culture (Paglia)

, 115

Sexton, Linda Gray

, 159

and Chris Hastings

, 167

critical reviews

, 203

45 Mercy Street

, 192–194

ghosts and ancestors

, 203

Half in Love (Surviving the Legacy of Suicide)

, 159–161, 196–199

legacy of suicide

, 201–202

manic-depressive illness

, 161–163

Mirror Images

, 175–182, 184

Points of Life

, 184–185, 186–187, 189

Private Acts

, 189–190

psychiatrists for

, 199–201

reunion with dead

, 188–189

Rituals

, 167–168, 170–174, 177

Searching for Mercy Street

, 159–161, 191–192

self-portrait in letters

, 161

The Kiss

, 185–188

Between Two Worlds: Young Women in Crisis

, 165–166, 190

writing as rescue

, 194–196

Sexual Politics (Millett)

, 83–85, 115, 165

Shame

, 111–112

Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life-Writing (Henke)

, 23

“Sheer dirgelike solemnity”

, 35

Shelley, Mary

, 125

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

, 124

Sita (Millett)

, 90–91

Skorczewski, Dawn

, 173–174, 179

Slater, Lauren

, 205–206

Blue Dreams

, 247–251

leaving readers with question marks

, 251

Love Works Like this

, 239–240

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

, 217–239

Opening Skinner’s Box

, 245–246

Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother

, 241–245

Prozac Diary

, 206, 212–213, 242

The $60, 000 Dog

, 240–241

Welcome to My Country

, 206–212

Slater, Tracy

, 27, 246–247

Sleep disturbances

, 98

Small Personal Voice, A (Lessing)

, 109, 294

Smith, Sidonie

, 5, 12, 222

“Smother-mother,”

, 178, 262

Snake Pit, The (Ward)

, 298

Snodgrass, W. D.

, 183

Snow, C. P.

, 123

Solomon, Andrew

, 253

A Stone Boat

, 255–263

acknowledging father

, 275

Far and Away

, 280–281

Far from the Tree

, 275–278

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

, 264–275

timing of Solomon’s depression

, 267–269

training in English and psychology

, 254–255

writing

, 281

Sontag, Susan

, 215–216

“Somewhat reductive” analysis

, 270

Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)

, 84–85, 178, 188, 262–263

Sophie’s Choice (Styron)

, 37, 52–54, 60–61, 72, 80

malignant depression

, 54–57

Stingo’s rescue fantasies

, 57–59

Spade, Kate

, 326

Speak, Memory (Nabokov)

, 10

Speaking of Sadness (Karp)

, 114

Spence, Donald B.

, 27

“Spoiled identity”

, 18

Spousal loss memoir

, 22, 25, 120, 145, 149–150

Sprengnether, Madelon

, 11

Stafford, Jean

, 153

Stigma

, 18, 37, 285

Stigma (Goffman)

, 18

Stone Boat, A (Solomon)

, 27–28, 255–256, 267–268, 276, 280

assisted suicide

, 260–263

homophobia

, 257–260

Storr, Anthony

, 9, 122

Strupp, Hans H.

, 273

Styron, Alexandra

All the Finest Girls

, 74–76

Reading My Father

, 68–73

Styron, William

, 119

Confessions of Nat Turner, The

, 50, 52

Darkness Visible

, 33–34, 38, 41, 46, 50, 56, 60–64, 68–69, 78–79

beyond expression

, 34–37

fundamental question

, 65–68

heart of darkness

, 61–62

landscape of depression

, 37–38

Lie Down in Darkness

, 38–46, 49, 54

lifeline

, 78–80

mirror of Styron’s childhood life

, 46–47

purpose of memoir

, 62–65

Set This House on Fire

, 47–52

Sophie’s Choice

, 52–59

“Study in the Conquest of Grief”

, 59

suicide letter to his readers

, 76–78

“Tidewater Morning, A,”

, 46–47, 58, 62, 74

wraithlike observer

, 43–46

about writing

, 60–61

Sublimation

, 45

Suicide

, 37, 42

cocktail

, 75

survivors

, 22

Survival stories

, 20

Surviving Madness: A Therapist’s Own Story (Berzon)

, 207, 270

Szasz, Thomas

, 109–110

Talk therapy

, 108–109

Talking Back to Prozac (Berman)

, 247

Talking Cure, The (Berman)

, 109

Tardive dyskinesia

, 285, 305

Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)

, 14

Terminations

, 296–297

analysis with Kaplan

, 311–312

Textbook diagnosis

, 153

The $60, 000 Dog (Slater)

, 240–241

“Therapeutic alliance,”

, 138, 250, 273

“Therapeutic culture,”

, 12

“Therapeutic jurisprudence,”

, 313, 334

“Therapeutic writing,”

, 15, 21, 23, 61, 194, 281, 318, 325

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression (Merkin)

, 228

Thorazine

, 162

Three Lives (film)

, 100

“Tidewater Mourning, A”

, 46–47, 62, 74

Tillich, Paul

, 238

To the Lighthouse (Briscoe)

, 194

Tolstoy, Leo

, 257

Too Soon to Say Goodbye (Buchwald)

, 68

Totem and Taboo (Freud)

, 299

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (Jamison)

, 25, 120, 122–123

“Tragic knots”

, 296–297

Traill, Thomas

, 150

Trickster memoir

, 221–222

Triumph narratives

, 20

Truth Revolt

, 100

Turn of the Screw, The (Henry James)

, 81, 188

Turner, Christopher

, 88

UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic

, 136

Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology (Elms)

, 103

Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface (Manning)

, 148, 265

Unhinged (Carlat)

, 247

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (Styron, Rose)

, 76

Unipolar depression

, 35–36

“Unlikely bard of depression”

, 33

Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, An (Jamison)

, 10, 25, 29, 94, 113, 119–157, 249

Valenstein, Elliot

, 247

van Gogh, Vincent

, 65, 125, 225

Vendler, Helen

, 156

Vickers, Neil

, 4

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer (Mairs)

, 61

Vyvanse

, 244

Wald, Priscilla,

Wallace, Mike

, 68, 264

Ward, Mary Jane

, 298

Warren, Robert Penn

, 168

Watson, James D.

, 122

Watson, Julia

, 5, 12, 222

Waves, The (Woolf)

, 264

Way of the Warrior, The (Styron)

, 36, 73, 78

Weevil, Assia

, 328

Welcome to My Country (Slater)

, 26, 206–212

“Werther effect,”

, 326

West, James L. W.

, 34, 47, 53, 62–63, 69, 72, 75–76

Whitaker, Robert

, 246

Whybrow, Peter

, 265

Williams, Meg Harris

, 296

William Styron Revisited (Coale)

, 44

Wilson, Edmund

, 8, 14–15

Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame)

, 144–145

Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare)

, 265

Wolpert, Louis

, 78, 300

Women and Madness (Chesler)

, 117

Woolf, Virginia

, 64, 125, 188, 209–210, 264

Worden, J. William

, 150

Wordsworth, William

, 124

Wound and the Bow, The (Wilson)

, 8

Wounded Storyteller, The (Frank)

, 18–20, 63, 272, 336

Writer’s block

, 3, 10, 36, 49, 72, 89, 115, 195

Writing madness

, 10

Writing Widowhood (Berman)

, 149

“Writing/righting wrong,”

, 21–22, 63, 118, 175, 285, 326

Wrongful Death (Gilbert)

, 21

Wurmser, Leon

, 111

Wurtzel, Elizabeth

, 212, 258, 328

Wyatt, Richard

, 120, 142, 145–147

Yagoda, Ben

, 12

Yalom, Irvin

, 211

Yalom, Marilyn

, 116

Yeats, William Butler

, 10, 287, 296, 334

Zionism

, 238

Zyprexa

, 244, 249