Contents

• Introduction: “Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside”

• PART ONE. VITA

  • A Zone of Social Abandonment
  • Brazil
  • Citizenship

• PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET

  • The Life of the Mind
  • A Society of Bodies
  • Inequality
  • Ex-Human
  • The House and the Animal
  • “Love is the illusion of the abandoned”
  • Social Psychosis
  • An Illness of Time
  • God, Sex, and Agency

• PART THREE. THE MEDICAL ARCHIVE

  • Public Psychiatry
  • Her Life as a Typical Patient
  • Democratization and the Right to Health
  • Economic Change and Mental Suffering
  • Medical Science
  • End of a Life
  • Voices
  • Care and Exclusion
  • Migration and Model Policies
  • Women, Poverty, and Social Death
  • “I am like this because of life”
  • The Sense of Symptoms
  • Pharmaceutical Being

• PART FOUR. THE FAMILY

  • Ties
  • Ataxia
  • Her House
  • Brothers
  • Children, In-Laws, and the Ex-Husband
  • Adoptive Parents
  • “To want my body as a medication, my body”
  • Everyday Violence

• PART FIVE. BIOLOGY AND ETHICS

  • Pain
  • Human Rights
  • Value Systems
  • Gene Expression and Social Abandonment
  • Family Tree
  • A Genetic Population
  • A Lost Chance

• PART SIX. THE DICTIONARY

  • “Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name”
  • Book I
  • Book II
  • Book III
  • Book IV
  • Book V
  • Book VI
  • Book VII
  • Book VIII
  • Book IX
  • Book X
  • Book XI
  • Book XII
  • Book XIII
  • Book XIV
  • Book XV
  • Book XVI
  • Book XVII
  • Book XVIII
  • Book XIX
  • Conclusion: “A way to the words”
  • Postscript: “I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people”

• Afterword
• Return to Vita

• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index