رواية ليس فيها إلا المكان، ينعدم فيها الزمان والهوية والحياة وربما الموت أيضًا. أو ربما هي رواية بطلها الموت،كتابٌ آخر مجنون لا يُعجب به إلا المجانين.
رواية ليس فيها إلا المكان، ينعدم فيها الزمان والهوية والحياة وربما الموت أيضًا. أو ربما هي رواية بطلها الموت، والبؤس والشتات والفراغ. يذكرني إبراهيم نصر الله بحسين البرغوثي، كما فيه شيءٌ من غسان كنفاني، وفيه من كلٍ منا شيء غريب. قد يكون التيه أو تعدد الشخصيات داخل شخص واحد.
هو بالفعل كتاب مرهق ذهنيًا ولكنه من شدة غرابته سيصعب عليك تركه حتى النهاية. ...more
This is such a simple yet deep book. Some pieces were below average, while others wowed me! This is a book of someone who knows how to express deeply This is such a simple yet deep book. Some pieces were below average, while others wowed me! This is a book of someone who knows how to express deeply in the simplest words, and yet lets love linger in every line even if it wasn't intended.
هذه القصة مختلفة أشد الاختلاف عن قصص غسان جميعها. لا أستطيع أن أطلق عليها "بوليسية" وهي بالتأكيد لا تمت بصلة لما اعتدت أن اقرأه لكنفاني. ولم يعجبني إقهذه القصة مختلفة أشد الاختلاف عن قصص غسان جميعها. لا أستطيع أن أطلق عليها "بوليسية" وهي بالتأكيد لا تمت بصلة لما اعتدت أن اقرأه لكنفاني. ولم يعجبني إقحامه للعلاقات "الجسدية" في القصة، على العكس تماماً لما اعتدته من كنفاني.
Before this book, I thought psychotherapy and psychiatry are not so trustworthy. Every story in this book could tell that there is a 70% chance you wiBefore this book, I thought psychotherapy and psychiatry are not so trustworthy. Every story in this book could tell that there is a 70% chance you will be misdiagnosed if you ever thought of consulting a specialist. Along the pages you bit by bit find out that we all can be psychopaths even for just a split of a second, that we all can fit into Hare's PCL-R Checklist, and that some of us might actually score higher than they think.
The things that really intrigued me in this book were how people like Bob Hare who created the PCL-R Checklist, and Robert Spitzer were so mad about creating such checklists that the latter's was as long as 800 pages or more. How they were so keen on labeling the individuals of the society with every possible mental disorder possible, that if you had some mood swings you're deemed bipolar, that if you avoided some crowd you'd be suffering antisocial disorder. So by the end of the day you've checked in every disorder existed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Like one of the deemed psychopaths said in the book " I know people are looking out for 'nonverbal clues' to my mental state. Psychiatrists love 'nonverbal clues.' They love to analyze body movements. But that's really hard for the person who is trying to act sane. How do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? And you know they're really paying attention. So you get self-conscious. You try to smile in a sane way. But it's just . . . It's just . . . impossible."
And then you again realize that according to this checklist, all CEOs in all big companies will score very high on the list. And that "plenty of people dehumanize others—find ways to eradicate empathy and remorse from their day jobs—so they can perform their jobs better. That's presumably why medical students tend to throw human cadavers at each other for a joke, and so on."
So, despite my skepticism and criticism against this 'madness' industry, this book is a must-read for any one who wants to understand a bit about how mental institutions actually work and how deceitful psychiatry might seem to be. It's also very informative and hard to put down once you have started reading.
I could read this book over and over again without getting even slightly bored. It is extremely interesting and jaw-dropping shocking sometimes that you will sometimes sympathize with some deemed psychopaths.
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