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I like the interspersing of professional observations with the fictitious sessions of therapy.

I thought the generalized points of the illness helpful to thinking of people we know who may be afflicted.


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Living in the Dead Zone Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder edition by Gerald Faris Ralph Faris Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews

Psychoanalyzing the dead? That's a good one.

I think I have to quote Britney Spears here. "Huh?"

All one needs to do is go to an AA meeting and you will find hundreds of people with your so called "borderline personality disorder." It's called alcoholism. Try growing up with them for parents. Talk about needed therapy.
Nowhere in the literature is there an analysis and narrative like this. Intense, compelling and riveting, the book explains why these two icons were so tragically self-destructive. In doing so,

they have illuminated and clarified for the public, the complex nature of the poorly understood borderline disorder. So many people can benefit from reading "Living in the Dead Zone". Bravo gentlemen!
I was unable to put this book down once I began reading the accounts offered by Faris and Faris. Their analysis of the borderline disorder was so disturbingly realistic in my own experience with my son that I thought they were writing to me. The therapy sessions they created with Janis and Jim were not only revealing but astonishing when you consider how good their music was.

This book is a most excellent read, filled with insights into the behavior of the borderline. And I truly did appreciate the sociological observations as well which contextualized the 1960s so well...and I do remember them as if it was yesterday.
The authors made an assumption about Jim before research was undertaken and I feel this coloured subsequent research. There's much more information available about Jim than was read by the authors who seem to have taken information that supports their point of view and ignored the rest. Jim's stage persona was a carefully orchestrated act based on a book called "Mass Hysteria and Crowd Control". He was playing a part. They were after all film graduates and film heavily influenced their stage presentations. Jim's poems were apocalyptic but that was his genre. The therapy sessions in the book are non-existent and are based on the authors' own preconceptions. Jim was extremely shy (said one Door and confirmed by another), there is some evidence he had a nervous breakdown, his home life was volatile and he drank. He couldn't keep up the act. He hated heroin and wouldn't take it deliberately. Where's the examination of the paramedics' reports to the Parisian police? Increasingly severe asthma attacks led to a prescription which he neglected to fill. A rock star's death by something as common as a heart attack caused by chronic asthma is not newsworthy. I'm disappointed in the lack of examination of all evidence before drawing a conclusion of BPD. The authors have analysed the myth, not the man.
I have no doubt of the sincerity of your belief that Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin were suffering from the exact 'disease' you diagnose them with, but referring me to *movies* (I think it would be appropriate here to distinguish between reality and cinema, particularly in the case of "The Doors", an Oliver Stone carwreck containing so much misinformation and misportrayals of every character, particularly Morrison, that we can hardly rely on it as some objective portrayal of the bands', and by extension Jim's, life and times that in looking at the actual man and not the fantasy we should positively run the other way). Shouldn't a psychotherapist discount films and souped up biographies to get to the real man as opposed to the myth? "The Rose", concerning Janis, while a better film, is still only a film. That a licensed psychotherapist, psychologist, whatever could even think of invoking a movie to diagnose even a long dead "patient" is absurd to the point of insanity.
You speak as if you knew them personally, which clearly would not be possible. You probably read "Break On Through", "No One Here Gets Out Alive", "The Lizard King", etc, and took everything in them as gospel truth--at least that's how it seems from the inane spouting of the Cartoon Morrison in your "interviews". I am more than certain I know as much about the lives of these two legends as you do. Yes, they were self destructive; yes, they used drugs extensively; yes, they played with different identities, different costumes. No one will EVER know why. This is precisely my point. Diagnosing them with Borderline Personality Disorder is about as solid as guessing what color shoes they wore from day to day. It is, once and for all, subjective. Your book is pure hypothesis, useful in the genre of hypothesis, but nothing more. Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin were doubtless two individuals suffering on the inside; in this they are no different from many creative geniuses. But to reduce their creativity to illness or twisted therapy accepted during a time of social turmoil is to stain their memory. Your thoroughly distasteful reductionism ("the facade of Morrison as poet began to crumble") is positively offensive to anyone who values his groundbreaking creativity. Did you actually speak to their families? Anyone who knew them as opposed to people making money from books and films? They were individualists, and individualism can even extend to so called "self destructive" behaviors that others find horrific or 'wrong'. They *chose* that path. Automatically assuming that some deep seated mental illness drove their every lyric or action is simply wrong.
I gave up on this book because the authors restated their premises so many times I became dizzy from going around and around.
I like the interspersing of professional observations with the fictitious sessions of therapy.

I thought the generalized points of the illness helpful to thinking of people we know who may be afflicted.