Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Christine Montrossamazon.com
Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
The essay ends in a kind of dream—with the image of a plush red curtain clasped and crushed in grief. And we’re happy to follow Woolf there, in part, because of that dash in her opening sentence, which denotes a passage from the dream-fugue of sickness, depression, and undirected reading into the dirigible madness of writing.
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