Bitter Blue: Tranquillisers, Drugs, Dependency
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0720608929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"what lies beneath" according to monica. what lies beneath 3 1/2 stars.Reed was addicted to Valium and Ativan for many years, and it's the hallucinations caused by withdrawal from them, as well as the panic attacks worsened by his kicking, that are the springboard for what is really a long reflective essay on what lurks in the unconscious a. 1/2 stars.Reed was addicted to Valium and Ativan for many years, and it's the hallucinations caused by withdrawal from them, as well as the panic attacks worsened by his kicking, that are the springboard for what is really a long reflective essay on what lurks in the unconscious a
. Jeremy Reed (no relation) is an award-winning poet, novelist, and counterculture biographer, who has published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He performs with the band Ginger Light
It can therefore be read as a companion volume to his other books about madness and poetic vision, for example Madness - The Price of Poetry and Delirium, his inspired interpretation of Rimbaud. The author's account of his addiction and withdrawal, and the reversibly psychotic phenomena surrounding the latter, could prove to be of real value to therapists and patients alike. At the same time he explores the hallucinated topography which has come to represent his own highly individual poetic territory. Yet his book deals predominantly with the creative mind, in the context of which he probes with insight and sympathy the drug-dependent lives of the writers Anna Kavan, Jean Cocteau, Henri Michaux, Georg Trakl and Marcel Proust. From the Back Cover In this arresting book Jeremy Reed recounts his pers
Amazingly, Reed managed to withdraw without hospitalization; his account will be valuable to other patients, social workers, and doctors. Its effects can be as devastating as heroin. Jeremy Reed had a ten-year addiction to the drug benzodiazepines. The drug was discovered by German scientists and used to keep subject people under control. In this tell-all book he discusses his addiction and his inner terrors of withdrawal. He also delves into the literature of Anna Kavan, Rimbaud, Baudelaire and other authors relating to drug addiction experiences.