Authors: Harold I Eist
Publish Date: 1983/05/20
Volume: 249, Issue: 19, Pages: 2632-2632
Abstract
In understanding the experience of the mentally ill individual we should recognize the courage they often exhibit even while engaging in superficial ordinary human interactions Unless we appreciate this their responses of isolation and withdrawal because of interpersonal terror will seem inexplicable Two clinical examples help to clarify this pointAn alcoholic woman began talking about her son who had been psychotic since childhood and I wondered if there would ever be any end to her grief Alcohol had destroyed her liver but it had not washed away the grief She mentioned with a slight smile that finally she was beginning to accept the many losses her sons illness represented
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