The Hiss of Hope: A Voyage with Parkinson's Toward an Intimate Autonomy

The Hiss of Hope: A Voyage with Parkinson's Toward an Intimate Autonomy

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The diagnosis of a chronic illness can separate a person's timeline into two spaces: the before and the after the onset of the disease. For this author it is Parkinson's Disease. The disease has been with her for 20 years. For the first few years the relationship between her and Parkinson's remains moderate. But the symptoms gradually become worse. And the battle begins. Her psychoanalytic practice has to close. Patients are referred to colleagues. Her days and nights consist of dualistic power battles, of feelings of resignation, or of enduring the hours when her body freezes and she becomes ...