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Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder - Softcover

Faris PhD, Gerald And Ralph; Gerald Faris Phd And Ralph Faris Phd

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9781426942969: Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

Synopsis

Living in the Dead Zone is a modem clinical analysis revealing how Janis Joplin, the leading female blues artist of the 1960s, and Jim Morrison, the influential rocker and lead singer of The Doors, both suffered from a little understood psychiatric disorder that eventually took their lives. Living in the Dead Zone simulates intense, mesmerizing psychotherapy sessions with Joplin and Morrison. It provides, at long last, a definitive explanation for their outrageous behaviors and emotional turmoil.

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About the Author

Gerald A. Faris, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of hospital inpatient, private practice and supervisory experience and was an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Faris has drawn on his extensive clinical experience in presenting Janis and Jim as the extraordinary talented, intelligent and tormented individuals they were. Ralph M. Faris, Ph.D. has presented the sociological commentary and analysis of the era in which Janis and Jim lived. He is a professor of sociology and the director of the Honors Program at the Community College of Philadelphia, where he was recently won the National Lindback Foundation, Distinguished Teaching Award.

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