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Adam Phillips

The Diary of a Mad Dancer: Nijinsky in Praise of Mistakes

The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky , unexpurgated edition translated from the Russian by Kyril Fitzlyon, edited by Joan Acocella. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 312 pages, $30.

Psychiatry has been so demeaning when it has sought to classify those people who have suffered most acutely throughout their lives from spurious classification: At its best, it misrecognizes Read More