Bonjour,
Je suis en contact avec le psychiatre , professeur à Harvard et auteur du livre qui a écrit ces lignes en anglais pour expliquer le livre. Ce livre entre fiction et réalité m'a passionné. Je le conseille et c'est un coup de coeur pour moi. Je peux traduire si cela intéresse quelqu'un.
Plot synopsis of LA Folie et La Gloire
Madness and cure within mad times. La Folie et La Gloire is the story of doctor Philippe Pinel who struck off the chains and introduced new therapy to the mentally ill during the French Revolution. Lalladiere, formerly a successful assistant to the
King’s prime minister Necker but now a very disturbed patient, has struggled with brutalizing and superstitious treatment. Confused but unshackled, he decides to escape from the asylum. Pinel and the hospital overseer, fearful that the escape will jeopardize the unchaining and unshackling program, have him hunted through the outlying streets of Paris. He takes to the roofs amidst the plundering and violent disarray, and he finally finds an open basement hiding place. In that isolated hole, he overhears on the street two high-ranking conspirators, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Paul Barras, who have come to that remote place to concoct a vicious plot to overthrow the powerful revolutionary leaders, the people’s speaker Georges Danton and the ”Incorruptible” Maximilien Robespierre. Later, he comes out and tries, with people that he meets, to report what he has heard, but he is not believed, and is returned to the Bicêtre asylum--still part prison and part hospital. On his return, he becomes treated directly by Dr. Pinel, and
begins to be rescued from his illness by the innovative and revolutionary therapy devised by the doctor. He is helped also by the innocent friendship of a gamin boy and the wisdom and devotion of Genevieve, his first love and the writer-daughter of another prominent government minister. In the course of his treatment, some devastating sources of his illness are revealed. But the conspirators, whose plots to destroy Danton and Robespierre, have by then proved successful, have learned from a disaffected asylum attendant that Lalladiere has talked in the therapy about their plans. They cleverly arrange for both revolutionary street people and the new government to pose serious threats to both the doctor and Lalladiere. While Dr. Pinel manages to escape the fury of an aroused band of vigilantes, a cured Lalladiere eventually succumbs to irrational and deadly forces of the times.
Dr. Pinel's approach--freeing all patients, despite much initial opposition, from shackles and debasement, and introducing a "mental" or psychological approach to treatment--was the beginning of modern psychiatry.
Albert Rothenberg is a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Principal Investigator of the project entitled “Studies in the Creative Process” which focuses on the psychiatric and psychological bases of creativity in literature, art, psychotherapy, and science. His major publications include:
The Creativity Question (Duke)
The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields (Chicago)--awarded Psychology Today Best Behavioral Science Book of the Year
The Creative Process of Psychotherapy (Norton)
Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes (Johns Hopkins)
Flight From Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity (Oxford University Press)
LIVING COLOR (York Press) A NOVEL
He has published 123 scientific articles, 107 of which have been on the topic of creativity.
He has been a recipient of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Award, NIMH Research Career Development Awards, Tufts Medical Alumni Award, U.S. Army Certificate of Merit, the Golestan Award, and the Mesab Kovler Award. He has also been honored with yearlong resident Fellowships at both the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences at Stanford and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenar.
He is married to artist Julia Johnson Rothenberg. They have spent a good deal of time throughout the small villages of Provence. In Paris, Dr. Rothenberg was bestowed the esteemed position of Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Salpêtrière Hospital.
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La Folie et la Gloire
Bonjour,
Je suis en contact avec le psychiatre , professeur à Harvard et auteur du livre qui a écrit ces lignes en anglais pour expliquer le livre. Ce livre entre fiction et réalité m'a passionné. Je le conseille et c'est un coup de coeur pour moi. Je peux traduire si cela intéresse quelqu'un.
Plot synopsis of LA Folie et La Gloire
Madness and cure within mad times. La Folie et La Gloire is the story of doctor Philippe Pinel who struck off the chains and introduced new therapy to the mentally ill during the French Revolution. Lalladiere, formerly a successful assistant to the King’s prime minister Necker but now a very disturbed patient, has struggled with brutalizing and superstitious treatment. Confused but unshackled, he decides to escape from the asylum. Pinel and the hospital overseer, fearful that the escape will jeopardize the unchaining and unshackling program, have him hunted through the outlying streets of Paris. He takes to the roofs amidst the plundering and violent disarray, and he finally finds an open basement hiding place. In that isolated hole, he overhears on the street two high-ranking conspirators, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Paul Barras, who have come to that remote place to concoct a vicious plot to overthrow the powerful revolutionary leaders, the people’s speaker Georges Danton and the ”Incorruptible” Maximilien Robespierre. Later, he comes out and tries, with people that he meets, to report what he has heard, but he is not believed, and is returned to the Bicêtre asylum--still part prison and part hospital. On his return, he becomes treated directly by Dr. Pinel, and
begins to be rescued from his illness by the innovative and revolutionary therapy devised by the doctor. He is helped also by the innocent friendship of a gamin boy and the wisdom and devotion of Genevieve, his first love and the writer-daughter of another prominent government minister. In the course of his treatment, some devastating sources of his illness are revealed. But the conspirators, whose plots to destroy Danton and Robespierre, have by then proved successful, have learned from a disaffected asylum attendant that Lalladiere has talked in the therapy about their plans. They cleverly arrange for both revolutionary street people and the new government to pose serious threats to both the doctor and Lalladiere. While Dr. Pinel manages to escape the fury of an aroused band of vigilantes, a cured Lalladiere eventually succumbs to irrational and deadly forces of the times.
Dr. Pinel's approach--freeing all patients, despite much initial opposition, from shackles and debasement, and introducing a "mental" or psychological approach to treatment--was the beginning of modern psychiatry.
Albert Rothenberg is a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Principal Investigator of the project entitled “Studies in the Creative Process” which focuses on the psychiatric and psychological bases of creativity in literature, art, psychotherapy, and science. His major publications include:
The Creativity Question (Duke)
The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science, and Other Fields (Chicago)--awarded Psychology Today Best Behavioral Science Book of the Year
The Creative Process of Psychotherapy (Norton)
Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes (Johns Hopkins)
Flight From Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity (Oxford University Press)
LIVING COLOR (York Press) A NOVEL
He has published 123 scientific articles, 107 of which have been on the topic of creativity.
He has been a recipient of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Award, NIMH Research Career Development Awards, Tufts Medical Alumni Award, U.S. Army Certificate of Merit, the Golestan Award, and the Mesab Kovler Award. He has also been honored with yearlong resident Fellowships at both the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences at Stanford and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenar.
He is married to artist Julia Johnson Rothenberg. They have spent a good deal of time throughout the small villages of Provence. In Paris, Dr. Rothenberg was bestowed the esteemed position of Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Salpêtrière Hospital.
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