Mother folly : a tale /
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise 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 questi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Cultural memory in the present.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise 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 and. |
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Notas: | "Originally published in French in 1998 under the title Mère folle." |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780804792233 0804792232 |