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A mingled yarn : chronicle of a troubled family.

Title
A mingled yarn : chronicle of a troubled family.
Author
Parker, Beulah, 1912-2007.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1972.

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Description
333 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
"Here is a vivid account of the climate of emotions that can--and in this case did--cause severe mental illness. The reader can sense the emotional atmosphere, feel the unspoken communications, and understand the family myths that created--in a talented, wealthy, and well-born family--two highly neurotic children, and one who later became schizophrenic. This unique document emerged from a series of long conversations between the youngest child and Dr. Beulah Parker, a noted psychoanalyst. A Mingled Yarn blends scientific observations with novelistic detail as it unfolds an intimate view of daily life in a disturbed family. Occasionally, Dr. Parker interrupts the narrative for some psychoanalytic interpretation of events and personality development, but the book is written in nontechnical language. It illustrates graphically the ways in which environmental and interpersonal factors are crucial in bringing about the development of emotional illness. Special emphasis is placed on the difficulty that members of this family had in expressing to each other what they really felt, and the havoc wrought by parental "communication deviation" and skewed attitudes. A Mingled Yarn is a remarkable document that will fascinate all people interested in emotional health and wellness."--
Series Statement
A Yale paperbound ; Y-327
Subject
  • Schizophrenics > Family relationships
  • Mentally ill > United States > Biography
  • Mental illness
  • Schizophrenia
  • Mental illness > Personal narratives
  • Family
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Mental Disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • mental disorders
  • Mental illness
  • Mentally ill
  • Schizophrenics > Family relationships
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Personal narratives
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Contents
pt. 1 : -- Background -- Ancestors -- Early days of Laura and Eliot -- pt. 2 : -- Children -- Carpenter family on St. Charles Place -- Beginning of the end -- pt. 3 : -- Young people -- Growing up -- Four seasons at Glen Alden -- pt. 4 : -- Adults -- Golden west -- Glen Alden money -- Fall of the House of Usher -- Later years.
ISBN
  • 0300015682
  • 9780300015683
  • 0300022921
  • 9780300022926
LCCN
72075206
OCLC
  • ocm00446285
  • 446285
  • SCSB-162307
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library