Искусство привязывать к жизни. Мемуары психиатра о границе между безумием и нормальностью

NEZAKONNOE POTREBLENYE NARKOTYChESKYKh SREDSTV, PSYKhOTROPNYKh VEShchESTV, YKh ANALOGOV PRYChYNYaET VRED ZDOROVYu, YKh NEZAKONNYY OBOROT ZAPREShchEN Y VLEChET USTANOVLENNUYu ZAKONODATELSTVOM OTVETSTVENNOST. Ego patsyenty — shyzofrenyky y narkomany, paranoyky y suytsydnyky, depressyvnye y anoreksyky. Ego rabochye budny polny krykov y ugroz, placha y vskhlypov, borby, neredko fyzycheskoy, za zhyzny tekh, kto stoyt na krayu bezdny. Ego professyya — eto yskusstvo pryvyazyvat lyudey: k krovaty, k realnosty, k zhyzny, k samym sebe. Paolo Mylone — vrach-psykhyatr, kotoryy 40 let prorabotal v psykhyatrycheskom otdelenyy bolnytsy v Genue. Zdes tayna psykhycheskogo zabolevanyya sosedstvuet s povsednevnoy zhyznyu tekh, kto v kontse smeny snymet belyy khalat y pospeshyt domoy, starayas ne zabyt kupyt moloka. ____________________________________________________Bezumtsy — nashy bratya. Vse, chto otlychaet nas ot nykh —udachnyy brosok kostey sudby. Odyn yz myllyona. Prosto sluchaynost. Y tolko poetomu my sydym po etu storonu stola.

ILLEGAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES IS HARMFUL TO HEALTH, AND THEIR ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. His patients are schizophrenics and drug addicts, paranoid and suicidal, depressed and anorexic. His workdays are full of screams and threats, crying and sobbing, and fighting, often physically, for the lives of those who stand on the edge of the abyss. His profession is the art of tying people to their beds, to reality, to life, to themselves. Paolo Milone is a psychiatrist who has worked for 40 years in the psychiatric department of a hospital in Genoa. Here, the mystery of mental illness is juxtaposed with the daily lives of those who, at the end of their shift, take off their white coats and hurry home, trying not to forget to buy milk. ____________________________________________________The madmen are our brothers. All that distinguishes us from them is a lucky roll of the dice. One in a million. It was just an accident. And that's the only reason we're sitting on this side of the table.