The Madness Inside My Head

Author : Susannah Cahalan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141975351

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Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Pdf

'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. Brain on Fire is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self. Brain on Fire is a mesmerizing story' -Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.

Author : S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781770495654

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The Voice inside My Head by S.J. Laidlaw Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral compass, like a voice inside his head, every time he has a decision to make. So when Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact that they can't produce a body - Luke heads to Honduras to find her because he knows something the authorities don't. From the moment of her disappearance, Pat's voice has become real, guiding him to Utila, where she had accepted a summer internship to study whale sharks. Once there, he meets several characters who describe his sister as a very different girl from the one knows. Does someone have a motive for wanting her dead? Determined to get to the bottom of Pat's disappearance, Luke risks everything, including his own life, to find the answer.

Author : Magdalena Garcia
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1798950189

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The Madness Inside My Head by Magdalena Garcia Pdf

Author : Daniel Berthold-Bond
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425053

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Hegel's Theory of Madness by Daniel Berthold-Bond Pdf

This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.

Author : C. Coleborne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230248649

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Madness in the Family by C. Coleborne Pdf

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.

Author : Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319981802

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Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Bénédicte Ledent,Evelyn O'Callaghan,Daria Tunca Pdf

This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much remains to be done in rethinking the trope of “madness” across Caribbean literature by local and diaspora writers. This book asks how focusing on literary manifestations of apparent mental aberration can extend our understanding of Caribbean narrative and culture, and can help us to interrogate the norms that have been used to categorize art from the region, as well as the boundaries between notions of rationality, transcendence and insanity across cultures.

Author : Emma Forrest
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822067

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Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest Pdf

A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408831557

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The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer Pdf

We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than the people we know.Pico Iyer investigates the mysterious closeness he has always felt with Graham Greene and follows him from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American. The further he delves, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Drawing upon experiences across the globe - from Bolivia to Berkhamsted to Bhutan - one of our most resourceful cultural explorers gives us his most personal and revelatory book.

Author : Allan Ingram
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0853239924

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Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century by Allan Ingram Pdf

Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalization of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake and Coleridge.

Author : Mark Axelrod-Sokolov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783319705217

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Madness in Fiction by Mark Axelrod-Sokolov Pdf

This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such as a historical moment, physical pressure (such as starvation), or the author’s or his narrator’s perspective. The project approaches the texts it explores from the perspective of a writer of fiction as well as from the perspective of a critic, and discusses them as unique manifestations of literary madness. It is of particular significance for those interested in the interplay of fiction, literary criticism, and psychology.

Author : Michael Whetstone,General William C. David
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811761833

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Madness in Mogadishu by Michael Whetstone,General William C. David Pdf

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the Somali capital of Mogadishu, leaving a handful of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators at the mercy of several thousand approaching militants. Ordered to "go find the glow"--the burning wreckage--hard-charging Capt. Mike Whetstone, commander of a Quick Reaction Company in the 10th Mountain Division, led part of the convoy sent to rescue the survivors. This powerfully vivid story of modern war is the intense firsthand account of the mission to find the crash site and retrieve the downed soldiers.

Author : Deblina Ghosal
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9798892777551

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Broken Clouds by Deblina Ghosal Pdf

The years blur into words, Misery, repentance and regret, All jumbles together inside ruffled thoughts, Finally sublimating into drops of relief, By lining up the letters with meaning, From heavy leaden darkened clouds, The sprinkle of colours break, Into the morning of hope and dawn

Author : Margaret Grace
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564747822

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Madness in Miniature by Margaret Grace Pdf

The grand opening of a giant chain crafts store is both good and bad news for miniaturist Gerry Porter. But when the big event is accompanied by an earthquake and a murder in the store, there’s plenty of opportunity for Gerry and her computer-gifted granddaughter Maddie to help the police investigate. Did the New Yorkers bring crime to quiet Lincoln Point, or are the town’s dispossessed small-business people responsible? From querying suspects to drawing up alibi charts, Gerry applies her insights to various issues of personal relations—but can she solve her own with her BFF, Henry Baker?

Author : Justin Garson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197613832

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Madness by Justin Garson Pdf

Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. In Madness, philosopher of science Justin Garson presents a radically different paradigm for conceiving of madness and the forms that it takes. In this paradigm, which he calls madness-as-strategy, madness is neither a disease nor a defect, but a designed feature, like the heart or lungs. The book will be essential reading for philosophers of medicine and psychiatry, historians and sociologists of medicine, and mental health service users, survivors, and activists, for its alternative and liberating vision of what it means to be mad.

Author : Patricia Dixon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1435 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504083263

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The Suspense Boxset by Patricia Dixon Pdf

Women confront lies, secrets, and threats, in these four gripping psychological novels from a British master of suspense! This collection of four novels from acclaimed author Patricia Dixon includes: The Other Woman Rowan’s days of being the other woman and waiting patiently for Alex are almost over. He’s left his wife, and Rowan is finally within touching distance of her happy ever after. But when Alex is involved in a terrible accident, facts begin to emerge that cast doubt on everything. And soon, Rowan’s own family is in grave danger, in this turbulent psychological suspense spanning from England to coastal France. Over My Shoulder When Freya meets Kane, he charms her off her feet and whisks her away into his lavish life. Falling in love with him is a dream come true. But as time goes by, his subtle manipulations escalate into something far worse in this “addictive and intriguing” thriller (Linda Huber, bestselling author of Baby Dear). #MeToo Inspired by true events. When Billie receives a desperate letter from the man she loves, convicted of a crime he swears he didn’t commit, she teams up with a private detective to find evidence that would set him free. Meanwhile, his accuser struggles to cope after an ordeal that’s left her traumatized and isolated, and Billie’s faith in his innocence is beginning to waver. There may be two sides to every story, but there’s only one truth . . . Blame After a killer is released from prison, a new spate of murders rocks the small village of Elkdale. It seems that Frankie, a woman who’s worked hard to escape the memory of the one night that changed her life forever, is being targeted for revenge—but who is blaming her, and why? “An excellent piece of psychological fiction.” —Book Rant Reviews