Bøger af Gwen Watkins

THE ULTIMATE PORT IS A PAGE-TURNING MIDNIGHT-OIL BURNING NOVEL YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN, WITH SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, AND DRAMA. THE AUTHOR WILL KEEP YOU MESMERIZED AS YOUR INNERMOST SELF WALKS YOU INTO THE LIVES OF EACH SHADY CHARACTER. THERE STOOD A BEARDED MAN WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS. HE WORE A TATTERED ROBE WITH AN UNMATCHING TIE AROUND HIS WAIST. ON HIS FEET WERE SANDALS OF A MATERIAL NONE WERE FAMILIAR WITH. THE PLEASANT STRANGER WAS TALL AND AS LEAN AS A RACEHORSE. EVERYTHING HAD COME TOGETHER FOR ANA MARIA BY THEN. THE WEIRD MEN COMING AND GOING AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT, AND THE MONEY. AS MARAQUITA NEVER DISCUSSED HER WORK, HER FAMILY KNEW OF HER CREATIVITY. PERHAPS SHE DOES FREELANCE ART OR DESIGN. GLORIA WATCHED WHAT LOOKED LIKE HER LOVING PARENTS GO OUT THAT WAY. WHAT MORE WOULD EMERGE FROM THE HIDDEN AGENDA, SHE WONDERED. GAINING STRENGTH FROM HER PAST EXPERIENCE MADE HER MORE DETERMINED TO COMPLETE HER JOURNEY VOID OF SCARE TACTICS.

This groundbreaking work is a unique collaboration between an Oxford psychologist and two literary critics. It was first published in 1990 and reprinted by Malor Books in 1998. The book explores the lives and works of ten authors, among them Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, who embody both serious mental illness and great originality of thought. The book draws upon personal diaries, historical archives, clinical records and literary productions, and examines modes of thinking such as divergent thought, over-inclusiveness, and autism, which psychosis and creativity might have in common. Using genetics, experimental abnormal and clinical psychology, personality research, descriptive psychiatry and literary analysis, the authors Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor and Gwen Watkins present the revolutionary idea that normality and psychosis are continuous with each other. Healthy varieties and styles of thought and perception substantially overlap with the inclination to psychotic breakdown and indeed might at times be identical.It’s not simple: neither a strict social interpretation nor a biological view of psychosis as a neurological disease can entirely explain the psychotic experience. As the authors eloquently put this, “The conjunction of the excellent and the awful is never found inany genuine neurological disease.” Psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, therapists and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between madness and creativity from this book. By offering exceptionally rich discussion, the authors leave room for readers to view their own divergent thinking not as “crazy,” but as potentially useful and creative.

Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.

An analysis of the friendship that existed between the poet Vernon Watkins, and Dylan Thomas; an important, poignant and challenging account of the lives of both poets.