My Brother S Madness

Author : Paul Pines
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810132993

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My Brother's Madness by Paul Pines Pdf

My Brother's Madness is based on the author's relationship with his brother-who had a psychotic breakdown in his late forties-and explores the unfolding of two intertwined lives and the nature of delusion. Circumstances lead one brother from juvenile crime on the streets of Brooklyn to war-torn Vietnam, to a fast-track life as a Hollywood publicist and to owning and operating The Tin Palace, one of New York's most legendary jazz clubs, while his brother falls into, and fights his way back from, a delusional psychosis. My Brother's Madness is part thriller, part exploration that not only describes the causes, character, and journey of mental illness, but also makes sense of it. It is ultimately a story of our own humanity, and answers the question, Am I my brother's keeper?

Author : Albert Rothenberg
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0801840112

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Creativity and Madness by Albert Rothenberg Pdf

Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.

Author : Jay Neugeboren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813532965

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Imagining Robert by Jay Neugeboren Pdf

"Imagining Robert" is the most honest book to date on the lives of the millions of families that must cope, day by day and year by year, over the course of a lifetime, with a condition for which, in most cases, there is no cure. By rendering his brother's mental illness in all its complexity and mystery, Jay Neugeboren has shown how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love

Author : Richardson (Major, John)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Canada
ISBN : NYPL:33433067303929

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The Canadian Brothers; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled by Richardson (Major, John) Pdf

Author : Anna Harriet Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026959413

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The Brothers: a Novel by Anna Harriet Drury Pdf

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B713351

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The Two Brothers by Orestes Augustus Brownson Pdf

Author : Maxwell Eaton, III
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385754699

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The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Crazy Critter Race by Maxwell Eaton, III Pdf

The race is on for Ace and Bub in their sixth adventure in this popular young graphic novel series, which Kirkus called “funny from the first panel!” Ace and Bub are tangled up in an island-hopping competition, and there’s more than just the grand prize—a houseboat!—at stake. The salesman and sponsor is Crazy Critter (and he really is craaazy), and it soon becomes clear that he has more than publicity for his houseboat dealership to gain from the race. Before long, the brothers are wrapped up in the plot: a fast-growing vine is entangling all the nearby islands! Which of their fellow competitors can help them put a stop to this outbreak—and which ones are behind it?

Author : Thomas Aiken Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : IND:30000099408803

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A Brother's Inquest Over a Brother's Grave, Or, The Question, Who Murdered Dr. John R. Goodwin? by Thomas Aiken Goodwin Pdf

Author : Joel Gold,Ian Gold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781439181560

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Suspicious Minds by Joel Gold,Ian Gold Pdf

Combines true case stories with the latest research in a tour of the delusion-afflicted human mind to explore how it reflects neuroscience, biology and culture, tracing the sources of paranoia and psychosis to faulty interactions between the brain and the social world. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Matthew G. Schoenbachler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139425

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Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler Pdf

The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp -- fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country's most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder -- committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave -- into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel's revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.

Author : Zhang Wei
Publisher : Devneybooks
Page : 2278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304483027

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Who with me crazy by Zhang Wei Pdf

When I was ten years old, my mother ran away from home because I couldn't stand my father's eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Since then, I have occasionally experienced a little fatherly love, and I have completely become a child with a mother and no father's pain.

Author : Henry COCKTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021729804

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The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox ... Illustrated by Henry COCKTON Pdf

Author : Heather Atkinson
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800482593

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Blood Brothers by Heather Atkinson Pdf

When you’re running the streets, loyalty is everything... Gangs rule the streets of the rough Gallowburn Estate in Glasgow, but the deepest rivalry of all is between Jamie Gray and his friends, known as the Blood Brothers, and their enemies, the Lawsons. The two gangs clash frequently, but when a phone containing incriminating evidence disappears after a particularly brutal run-in, the stakes are higher than ever. Jamie’s mother Jackie is as hard as nails and is not going to let anyone hurt her boy – even if she has to roll up her sleeves and get stuck in. What she wants more than anything though, is to see Jamie turn his back on the street life. And when he meets spoilt rich-girl Allegra, who has a penchant for shoplifting, Jackie thinks she could be Jamie’s way out. But with the Lawsons closing in, and everyone taking sides, there is only one way out for Jamie, and to triumph he must take out his biggest enemy... If you love Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers, and Jessie Keane, you’ll love Heather Atkinson. Discover the bestselling author Heather Atkinson, her crackling plots, unforgettable characters and page-turning pace and you'll never look back... What readers are saying about Heather Atkinson: 'Another brilliant book from Heather...she really is one the best in the business. ' 'I have read ALL Heather Atkinson's books. They are all fantastic.' 'All Heather's books are action packed and have you on edge.' 'I stumbled upon Heather's books and I'm so glad I did , characters excellent and storylines are great , I find myself searching the book stores for more of them to read the minute I finish one.'

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000700452

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191043703

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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire by Paddy Bullard Pdf

Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to first decade of the seventeenth century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.