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Memoirs of a Sleepless Mind

Author : J. Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595277284
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Sleepless Mind written by J. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's that "different" book you've been searching for. From a perspective reminiscent of Andy Rooney and Bill Maher, it offers observations and opinions about our world. For some of the world's problems, it suggests some unique solutions, like the eight day week, the metric clock, and the Mackay Mobile. This book asks creative questions, like: have you ever tried to make a raisin? It's "just" a dried grape. Have you ever considered a war in the 1700's ranging from Boston to South Carolina? That's a three - day drive on today's highways. How could the people fighting that war keep track of it? Memoirs ponders such things. It's good for reading while waiting in a doctor's office, or other limited time frames, as it occupies the mind without lengthy involvement. The varied subjects included are not generally connected to each other, so it need not be read in any particular order. The reader of Memoirs will find it provocative and humorous. He'll think the author insightful or crazy. He'll be fascinated or dumbfounded. Maybe he'll wonder, "If I soak a raisin, will I get a grape?" If you've been looking for something really different, your search has ended.

Insomnia

Author : Marina Benjamin
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226065
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Insomnia written by Marina Benjamin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An insomniac’s ideal sleep aid—and that’s a compliment. With her collage of ruminations about sleeplessness, [Benjamin] promises no real cure . . . Her slim book is what the doctor ordered.”—The Atlantic Insomnia is on the rise. Villainous and unforgiving, it’s the enemy o f energy and focus, the thief of our repose. But can insomnia be an ally, too, a validator of the present moment, of edginess and creativity? Marina Benjamin takes on her personal experience of the condition—her struggles with it, her insomniac highs, and her dawning awareness that states of sleeplessness grant us valuable insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. Although insomnia is rarely entirely welcome, Benjamin treats it less as an affliction than as an encounter that she engages with and plumbs. She adds new dimensions to both our understanding of sleep (and going without it) and of night, and how we perceive darkness. Along the way, Insomnia trips through illuminating material from literature, art, philosophy, psychology, pop culture, and more. Benjamin pays particular attention to the relationship between women and sleep—Penelope up all night, unraveling her day’s weaving for Odysseus; the Pre–Raphaelite artists’ depictions of deeply sleeping women; and the worries that keep contemporary females awake. Insomnia is an intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. “This is the song of insomnia, and I shall sing it,” Marina Benjamin declares.

Sleepless

Author : Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635901774
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Sleepless written by Marie Darrieussecq and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature’s most elegant voices. Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. “Insomniac mornings are dead mornings,” she observes. Prevented from falling asleep by her dread of exhaustion the next day, Darrieussecq turns to hypnosis, psychoanalysis, alcohol, pills, and meditation. Her entrapment within this spiraling anguish prompts her inspired, ingenious search across literature, geopolitical history, psychoanalysis, and her own experience to better understand where insomnia comes from and what it might mean. There are those, she writes, in Rwanda, whose vivid memories of genocide leave them awake and transfixed by complete horror; there is the insomnia of the unhoused, who have nowhere to put their heads down. The hyperconnection of urban professional life transforms her bedroom from a haven to a dormant electrified node. Ranging between autobiography, clinical observation, and criticism, Sleepless is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.

Sleepless

Author : Annabel Abbs-Streets
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593714164
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Sleepless written by Annabel Abbs-Streets and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why women’s brains work differently at night—and how we can harness that altered state for greater creativity, insight, and courage. In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs-Streets experienced a series of losses: her stepfather, then father, and finally her family’s puppy. Unmoored by grief, she couldn’t sleep. But she discovered something surprising: during her wakeful nights, the darkness became a place of sanctuary, filled with creativity, reflection, and wonder. And once she stopped fighting her insomnia, Annabel tapped into something mysterious and beguiling: her Night Self. In the tradition of books like Breath and Wintering, Sleepless combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness. Her night journeys range from quiet country fields to brightly lit city streets to the darkest reaches of the Arctic Circle. And from women of the past—Lee Krasner, Virginia Woolf, Louise Bourgeois, and dozens more—who opened their minds on sleepless nights, to contemporary women who found a form of healing in darkness. From moth hunters to astronomers, from artists to photographers, Annabel found she wasn’t alone. Cut loose from the anxiety of insomnia, numerous women discovered strength, imagination, and inner knowledge at night. Many also learned to—finally—sleep.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Author : Christopher Grau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135975116
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written by Christopher Grau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years. This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics: philosophical issues surrounding love, friendship, affirmation and repetition the role of memory (and the emotions) in personal identity and decision-making the morality of imagination and ethical importance of memory philosophical questions about self-knowledge and knowing the minds of others the aesthetics of the film considered in relation to Gondry’s other works and issues in the philosophy of perception Including a foreword by Michel Gondry and a list of further reading, this volume is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Author : Charlie Kaufman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854597960
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written by Charlie Kaufman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel discovers that his girlfriend has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Not wishing to be left behind he contacts the inventor of the technique to erase his memories too. The resulting confusion is only compounded when he rediscovers his passion for the girl he has forgotten.

Insomnia

Author : Marina Benjamin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1948226057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Insomnia written by Marina Benjamin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An insomniac’s ideal sleep aid—and that’s a compliment. With her collage of ruminations about sleeplessness, [Benjamin] promises no real cure . . . Her slim book is what the doctor ordered.”—The Atlantic Insomnia is on the rise. Villainous and unforgiving, it’s the enemy o f energy and focus, the thief of our repose. But can insomnia be an ally, too, a validator of the present moment, of edginess and creativity? Marina Benjamin takes on her personal experience of the condition—her struggles with it, her insomniac highs, and her dawning awareness that states of sleeplessness grant us valuable insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. Although insomnia is rarely entirely welcome, Benjamin treats it less as an affliction than as an encounter that she engages with and plumbs. She adds new dimensions to both our understanding of sleep (and going without it) and of night, and how we perceive darkness. Along the way, Insomnia trips through illuminating material from literature, art, philosophy, psychology, pop culture, and more. Benjamin pays particular attention to the relationship between women and sleep—Penelope up all night, unraveling her day’s weaving for Odysseus; the Pre–Raphaelite artists’ depictions of deeply sleeping women; and the worries that keep contemporary females awake. Insomnia is an intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. “This is the song of insomnia, and I shall sing it,” Marina Benjamin declares.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 022656083X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Memoirs and Misinformation

Author : Jim Carrey
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735280606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs and Misinformation written by Jim Carrey and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "None of this is real and all of it is true." --Jim Carrey From movie star Jim Carrey and novelist Dana Vachon, a fearless and semi-autobiographical novel about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, destruction of persona, our "one big soul," Canada, and apocalypses within and without. Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege--but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddlin' with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector, Nicolas Cage, isn't enough to pull Carrey out of his slump. Then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And thanks to auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself. Finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up. But the universe has other plans. Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul," Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world--apocalypses within and without.

A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir

Author : Clifford Whittingham Beers
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir written by Clifford Whittingham Beers and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiographical account of the author's hospitalization and the abuses he suffered. In 1900 he was first confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He would later be confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During these periods he experienced and witnessed serious maltreatment at the hands of the staff. "A Mind That Found Itself" was widely and favorably reviewed, became a bestseller, and is still in print.

Hurry Down Sunshine

Author : Michael Greenberg
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519817
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Hurry Down Sunshine written by Michael Greenberg and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and tenderness...but mostly it’s about love.” —OPRAH WINFREY AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK This international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an exceptionally powerful memoir about coping withbipolar disorder, now with a new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition. Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's sweltering summer. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again. Greenberg's unforgettable cast of characters includes an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary aspirations. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is essential reading in the literature of affliction with such classics as Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.

Mind on Fire

Author : Arnold Thomas Fanning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844884292
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Mind on Fire written by Arnold Thomas Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, Arnold Thomas Fanning has produced a beautifully written, devastatingly intense account of madness - and recovery, to the point where he has not had any serious illness for over a decade and has become an acclaimed playwright. In a remarkably vivid present-tense narrative, Fanning manages to convey the consciousness of a person living with mania, psychosis and severe depression. Very few people have gone through what Arnold Thomas Fanning went through and emerged alive, well, and capable of telling the tale with such skill and insight. Mind on Fireis a book anyone who has experienced mental illness, or is close to someone who is mentally ill, or who wishes to understand the workings of the disordered mind.

The Shapeless Unease

Author : Samantha Harvey
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802148840
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Shapeless Unease written by Samantha Harvey and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sleeplessness gets the Susan Sontag illness-as-metaphor treatment in this pensive, compact, lyrical inquiry into the author’s nighttime demons.” —Kirkus Reviews In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph). “Captures the essence of fractious emotions—anxiety, fear, grief, rage—in prose so elegant, so luminous, it practically shines from the page. Harvey is a hugely talented writer, and this is a book to relish.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times–bestselling author “Harvey writes with hypnotic power and poetic precision about—well, about everything: grief, pain, memory, family, the night sky, a lake at sunset, what it means to dream and what it means to suffer and survive . . . The big surprise is that this book about ‘shapeless unease’ is, in the end, a glittering, playful and, yes, joyful celebration of that glorious gift of glorious life.” —Daily Mail “What a spectacularly good book. It is so controlled and yet so wild . . . easily one of the truest and best books I’ve read about what it’s like to be alive now, in this country.” —Max Porter, award-winning author of Lanny

A Mind that Found Itself

Author : Clifford Whittingham Beers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A Mind that Found Itself written by Clifford Whittingham Beers and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this autobiography, Clifford Whittingham Beers describes his battle with "insanity" (psychosis) between the ages of 24 and 26 and his repeated committals to a series of mental hospitals, where brutal and inhumane treatment caused more emotional trauma. Beers argues, "the biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battle-field that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self." He also notes that his purpose in telling his story is to address the "needless abuse of helpless thousands" in mental hospitals. This autobiography provides a first-hand account of the abuse of mentally disordered patients in hospitals and strong recommendations for reform."--Notice de la base de donnée PsycINFO, 2010 APA.

Sleepless Nights

Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174380
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sleepless Nights written by Elizabeth Hardwick and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Author : Christopher Grau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135975124
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written by Christopher Grau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years. Exploring a future where it is possible to have memories erased, it raises many intriguing and important philosophical questions spanning ethics, personal identity, the emotions and philosophy of mind. Including annotated sections of further reading at the end of each chapter and a foreword by the director the film, Michel Gondry this volume is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.

A Mind that Found Itself

Author : Clifford Beers
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537820281
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book A Mind that Found Itself written by Clifford Beers and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Beers' own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental institutions at one time or another. Beers, who wrote the book after his own confinement, gained the support of the medical profession and was a leader in the mental hygiene movement. A Mind that Found Itself has been an inspiration to many mental health professionals in their choice of a profession. It also did much to help the rest of the world see mental health issues as a serious disease.