Mother Folly: A Tale

by Françoise Davoine

Book Overview

If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Fran oise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange voyage across several centuries and countries, in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804782784
• ISBN13: 9780804782784
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"