Living in the Dead Zone: Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison

About the Book

Living in the Dead Zone is a modem clinical analysis revealing how Janis Joplin, the leading female blues artist of the 1960s, and Jim Morrison, the influential rocker and lead singer of The Doors, both suffered from a little understood psychiatric disorder that eventually took their lives. Living in the Dead Zone simulates intense, mesmerizing psychotherapy sessions with Joplin and Morrison. It provides, at long last, a definitive explanation for their outrageous behaviors and emotional turmoil.

About the Author

Gerald A. Faris, Ph.D Dr. Faris is a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of hospital, private practice and supervisory experience. He received his doctorate from The Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. Dr. Faris was a diagnostic and treating psychologist and director of clinical research at an adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit and later, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Faris has published research on schizophrenia and conducted outcome studies on adolescents hospitalized for emotional problems. He has written and lectured extensively on diagnostic evaluations, mood disorders, borderline personality disorders, learning disabilities and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Ralph M. Faris, Ph.D. Dr. Faris draws upon more than 30 years of experience to present the sociological commentary and analysis of the era in which Janis and Jim lived. He is professor of sociology and director of the Honors Curriculum at the Community College of Philadelphia. He received his doctorate in Sociology from Temple University. Dr. Faris is the author of Corporate Networks and Corporate Control (Greenwood Publishing Group), as well as numerous articles analyzing the social, cultural and political aspects of society.