Seeking peace of mind: paranoia and its therapy through nature in John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning

• Main Authors: Aldhafeeri, Hilalah, Termizi, Arbaayah Ali, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Valley International Journals 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53783/1/Seeking%20peace%20of%20mind.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53783/; https://valleyinternational.net/index.php/theijsshi/article/view/540

This article examines the development of paranoia in John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning. The study will mainly focus on anxiety as the main cause of the protagonist’s anxious feelings. The protagonist, Liv, suffers from paranoid feelings as a result of drowning her schoolmates. Consequently, she b...