North Star: Can You Psychoanalyse? a Psychedelic Journey Through Psychosis

By Joseph Byrne

North Star is a record of psychotic episodes. A psychotic episode is a third level of consciousness within a dream. each episode is visualized in black & white motion. It displays an array of emotions, and it is reflective. In this collection, the writer adheres to authenticity, never abandoning it for fiction. This account brings to life truthful events in an almost fictional manner. This collection is a chronicle of the bizarre, an homage to the paranoid. It concerns the reader with understanding and unravelling each psychotic episode and psychologically evaluating the main character, in turn understanding themselves. Writers proceeds will be donated to Concern.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467010979

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© 2011 by joseph byrne. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 10/24/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4670-1096-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4670-1097-9 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

morning tide: beginnings

trust

updraft

irises and lenses

magpie

visiting Viktor E. Frankl

orbit

inceptive peace

walls

cultures

sitting in darkness

down town

Salon

reflections of psychosis

trying to believe

rum

tomorrow

barley cellar

intro-mechanical

chimney sweep

tsunami

seconds

new age vets

poverty of speech

[e-mail]

stigmas and rain clouds

obsessive-compulsive disorder

meds

to psychosis

to mental health

evening tide:

reflections

Paris

health

Patience: the raven

anger

as the years fall by

street cat

Ashling

closing time

bipolar

rain

rain, part 2

revolution

equal eyes

earth vibes

as you are

Roisín

corridos

end

advice in a pub on

Wexford street

ask her

Aunt Agatha

graffiti

from Greece to Thomas St.

LSD and classics

Waterford morning, 7:00 a.m.

autumn garden

north star:

homeward destined

sitting in an English garden

Mozart

toggle horse rainbow

sewing stars

political monocles

Susa-no-wo

café society

Peace Day

delicatessen dancers

Nyang

walnut

suburban vice-versa

change

nuclear war

suburban psychopath

cherry

carnival

belief

The Author

schizophrenia is not shame

schizophrenia is not a name

life today is ‘hard rain’

ever changing

morning tide: beginnings

trust

i wake to find i am a microchip,

silicon,

a component.

i walk to the edge of my bed;

this long trek takes all of five hours.

reason is a buffalo soldier,

light is a latitudinarian guest,

my anthology is an unfounded thought.

looking down from this elevation,

Babylon,

Crete,

Mount Ida,

seven hills and a wolf calls.

an envelope within time,

a cavern base camp at the foot of an elastic equinox,

there at the foot,

my shoes—

they are also microchips.

they call to me,

‘if you jump we will catch you,

we must all comply.’

closing my eyes,

i jump—

icarus,

meteorites,

a Chinese kite string,

flaccid in an October sky.

halfway down i open my eyes,

I see my shoes walking away.

updraft

updraft,

elevator in corduroy wind,

helium balloon in mid-air,

aeroplane aerofoil,

zeppelin autopilot,

a crest of heralding air

in a ragged flux disregard.

i episode,

my skin tensing,

my tingling skin ebbing.

an updraft beneath my feet,

airborne,

moving but trapped,

flying but never arriving.

a Buddhist monk,

levitating,

Zen.

this butterfly transient experience,