This Is Me, Is That You?: Encounters with Schizophrenia

A psychoanalyst's sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients



In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical internship at one of the last remaining nineteenth-century mental hospitals in New England. Intending to observe and offer compassionate care to the most chronically ill patients, he ended up staying for two years, forming close therapeutic relationships with three female patients suffering from ...