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Chapter: The search for a cure chapter four.
Issue: The cause of mental illness.
Initial statement: Throughout the novel there are many different views on the causes of mental illness, some believe it is the mothers fault for overprotecting her child while others believe it is a very unfortunate medical condition that people suffer from. In this part of the novel we meet Jacqui who has a centre in India called Athma Shakti. She works with the mentally ill and their families, and works in stages to try and make them better. At this centre they have very strict rules about how the mentally ill should bet treated and how they should behave. Jacqui believes that mental illness is caused by early childhood experiences, but these experiences are not only social experiences but also family and upbringing experiences, such as whether he was breast fed, how often, how Anne felt about this and when he went onto solids. She did not seem to take any interest in the fact that at birth he had a cerebral haemorrhage.
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In Jonathan¡¦s case: She has moments in the novel where she absolutely hates him yet along the road to Athma Shakti she really feels sorry for him. At one stage she even says to him ¡§courage¡¨ she figures if she¡¦s scared, he must be petrified. Jacqui: With Jacqui, Anne puts a lot of labels on her. She has a very negative image of Jacqui and this is caused by the fact that while Jonathan is under Jacqui¡¦s care, she want to be his ¡§mother¡¨. Not literally, of course but she wants Jonathan to look up to her and respect her like he would his mother. Anne also call¡¦s Jacqui a ¡§player of scrabble and eater of violet chocolate creams¡¨(pg119) in one of the unbarred group sessions because Jacqui believed that ¡§he (Jonathan) must have felt rejected when he was nine months old and decided from then on there was something wrong with him¡¨