Literary essays on Marion Morehouse, Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, and Jack Kerouac; interviews with Albert Hofmann, Michael Korda, Jeffrey Jackson, Robert Roper, Justin Kaplan, Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, James Dempsey, and others.
Doctor Pluss is a work of fiction based on actual dialogues with schizophrenic patients, diabolically 'sane' psychotherapists, and well-meaning yet unerringly destructive social workers. It chronicles the descent of an eccentric, sardonic, and witty psychiatrist into what appears to be a state of complete madness. Written in an evocative, lyrical prose style, the tale achieves a magical life of its own as the narrative twists, turns, and accelerates along with the doctor's free fall into the self. Doctor Pluss demonstrates how ideation and speech may be surrealistically transformed into a 'broken language' delirium, which, despite its strangeness, remains eerily accessible.Critical acclaim: "In the early 1980s, Couteau worked as a client advocate in the New York City mental health system. Employed initially as a case manager and subsequently as a director for a community residence program, he was tasked with insuring that the patients' civil rights were protected. Doctor Pluss is the fictionalized account that emerged from those years of intensive advocacy work, which often involved serving as a liaison between patients and mental health practitioners such as social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. It portrays a milieu in which the road to hell is paved with psychiatric good intentions. Critical acclaim for Doctor Pluss:"Doctor Pluss is exceptionally well developed and emotionally compelling, connecting metaphorical description with experiences that often challenge the traditional roles of doctor and patient, linking them in unexpected ways ? Couteau is not afraid to push the literary boundaries of convention in pursuit of a different form of descriptive truth, bringing readers along in a rollicking ride through schizophrenic experience that ultimately questions the foundations of reality and perception from both sides of the therapist's couch ? His interpretations and descriptions of the schizophrenic experience are particularly astute, astonishing, and evocatively described ? Readers who choose Doctor Pluss are in for a treat. It's like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on steroids: a thought-provoking examination of sanity, insanity, and the crossover process that leaves readers thinking long after this therapeutic slice of life is consumed." - Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review (April 2020).
In the first decade of the twentieth century, a retired legal clerk in Montmartre named Léon Angély collected Picassos, Modiglianis, and Utrillos before any of these artists were well known. And he purchased much of the artwork when his failing vision left him almost completely blind. Legend has it that Léon was assisted by a young girl who served as his "eyes," and based on her description of the work he would make his selections. The book is illustrated with original artwork by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, who modeled for Picasso when she was only nineteen years old, during a period of three months in 1954. Now eighty-seven, Sylvette credits Picasso for inspiring her to devote her life to painting and drawing. This homage to the 'blind man who was crazy for color' reveals previously unknown information about this important yet largely forgotten figure who inspired one of Picasso's most powerful engravings, which features a 'Blind Minotaur' being led through a labyrinth by a little girl.
1956. La mort du " petit père des peuples " a plongé le pays dans le chaos. Tandis que Khrouchtchev entreprend sa politique de déstalinisation, les langues se délient : le temps est venu de régler les comptes. Ex-agent zélé du MGB, Leo Demidov, aujourd'hui repenti, est à la tête d'un département de criminologie. Avec sa femme, Raisa, il a adopté deux fillettes, mais l'aînée, Zoya, hait ce père de substitution. Et elle n'est pas la seule... Car, dans l'ombre, quelqu'un attend son heure, une femme que la colère et le sentiment d'injustice ont rendue ivre de vengeance. Pour sauver les siens, Leo n'aura bientôt plus d'autre choix que de se jeter dans la gueule du loup : le terrifiant goulag de Kolyma...
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