Psychiatry on the Stage
Author | : Carol Berman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780197622032 |
ISBN-13 | : 0197622038 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Download or read book Psychiatry on the Stage written by Carol Berman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first time I saw a play was when I was twelve and a nerdy math major in junior high. Our class went to downtown Los Angeles and saw a Shakespeare play. I forget which one we saw (I only remember it was about a king), but I fell in love with theater right then and there. They were talking in some weird variation of English to my mind, but the actors were so good, I could immediately understand what they meant. I came from a working-class family, and the only thing I'd watched until then was TV or a movie. I probably developed a neural network at that time, which connected the scientific part of my brain to my artistic part"--