First, You Cry
Living with a Disabling Disease
It has been said that to write is to avoid the death of desire. Psychoanalysts see desire as life’s driving force. In this book, Sonia Vieira demonstrates poetically that, with this force, limits of the body can be overcame and the spiritual being immortalized through history. Moreover, simplicity and firmness are both present, even when ideas are opposed and behavior condemned. A book that makes think.
Components of the Book:
  • Head Page
  • Copyright
  • New Year's Recipe
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1.A Car Accident
  • Chapter 2.The Consequences
  • Chapter 3.Shock and Denial
  • Chapter 4.The Will to Live
  • Chapter 5.At the Hospital
  • Chapter 6.My Marriage Comes to an End
  • Chapter 7.The Cost of Sickness
  • Chapter 8.It is Necessary to Sail, It is Not Necessary to Live
  • Chapter 9.Balance and Bearing
  • Chapter 10.Living and Learning with a Disabling Disease
  • Chapter 11.Life Is the Art of Gathering
  • Postface A Friend Hears and Reads What I Have to Say and Then Writes
  • References
Readership: Readers who are interested in the studies of life philosophy will find this book useful.
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Head Page
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Copyright
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New Year's Recipe
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Contents
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Chapter 1.A Car Accident
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Chapter 2.The Consequences
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Chapter 3.Shock and Denial
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Chapter 4.The Will to Live
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Chapter 5.At the Hospital
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Chapter 6.My Marriage Comes to an End
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Chapter 7.The Cost of Sickness
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Chapter 8.It is Necessary to Sail, It is Not Necessary to Live
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Chapter 9.Balance and Bearing
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Chapter 10.Living and Learning with a Disabling Disease
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Chapter 11.Life Is the Art of Gathering
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Postface A Friend Hears and Reads What I Have to Say and Then Writes
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References
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Sonia Vieira
Sonia Vieira has a degree in engineering at the University of Sao Paulo, and the doctor’s degree from the same university. She is a Full Professor of Statistics in the State University of Campinas. She has been as a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a Visiting Professor at Yale University.

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