| A Break in the Wall Contributor(s): Lachter, Bruce D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 099255330X ISBN-13: 9780992553302 Publisher: Dr Bruce D Lachter OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5" W x 8" (0.86 lbs) 362 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A BREAK IN THE WALL In a bid to save his psychiatric career, the nameless doc turns to prison research. He seeks the answer to one simple question, but nothing is ever simple in the prison jungle. Under the spell of Marxist agitator and prisoner, Antonio Gramsci, the psychiatrist begins to fear his own psyche. His research is sabotaged. Detached observation of prisoners as scientific data gives way to experience - of futility, despair, and dread. The wall of his psychological defences finally broken, the doc is lured to commit a terrible crime which Gramsci exploits. But when a path to redemption opens, can the doc make it through? 'A Break in the Wall' is at once a bold satire of contemporary psychiatry, and a chronicle of the hubris of the wounded healer. Death is not the only ending. There is also madness, which, like prison, is easier to enter than to leave... |