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What is Madness?

Darian Leader
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Author : Darian Leader
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health and fitness
ISBN : 0141047356

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What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like that of the apparently 'normal' Harold Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to the images we might expect. By exploring the idea of 'quiet madness' - that psychosis and an uneventful normal life are absolutely compatible - he argues that we must radically revise our understanding of madness. Once we realise that psychosis can be stable and contained, we have valuable tools to help those who have been less fortunate and whose psychosis has already been triggered. 'Fascinating. A formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely book.' New Statesman 'Superb insights, brilliant.' Observer 'Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we regard madness.' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, probing. A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness.' Independent 'Provides valuable insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered psychosis to rebuild their lives.' Sunday Times

Madness and Civilization

Michel Foucault
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Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Madness, Violence, and Power

Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford
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Author : Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442629974

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Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.

Madness in Civilization

Andrew Scull
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Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691166155

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Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

A Philosophy of Madness

Wouter Kusters
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Author : Wouter Kusters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262044288

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The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.

Managing Madness

Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
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Author : Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780887555350

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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum’s expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck’s "Managing Madness" examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.

The Logic of Madness

Matthew Blakeway
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Author : Matthew Blakeway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992796156

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In assuming that mental illness is a mathematical problem, The Logic of Madness analyses how a human action can be deviant even when rational. It reveals that a person without a genetic or brain abnormality can have an apparent mental disorder that is entirely logical in its structure.

Madness Explained

Richard P Bentall
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Author : Richard P Bentall
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141909325

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Today most of us accept the consensus that madness is a medical condition: an illness, which can be identified, classified and treated with drugs like any other. In this ground breaking and controversial work Richard Bentall shatters the myths that surround madness. He shows there is no reassuring dividing line between mental health and mental illness. Severe mental disorders can no longer be reduced to brain chemistry, but must be understood psychologically, as part of normal behaviour andhuman nature. Bentall argues that we need a radically new way of thinking about psychosis and its treatment. Could it be that it is a fear of madness, rather than the madness itself, that is our problem?

Making Sense of Madness

Jim Geekie,John Read
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Author : Jim Geekie,John Read
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415461955

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This book argues that the experience of 'madness' is an integral part of what it is to be human, and that greater focus on subjective experiences can contribute to professional understandings and ways of helping those troubled by these experiences.

The Meaning of Madness

Neel Burton
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Author : Neel Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1913260038

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This award winning book opens up the debate on mental disorders. For example, what is schizophrenia? Why does it affect human beings but not other animals? What might this tell us about our mind and body, language and creativity, music and religion? What are the boundaries between 'madness' and 'normality'? And what about genius?

A Small Madness

Dianne Touchell
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Author : Dianne Touchell
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988396

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Rose and Michael are good students with bright futures. They are also in love. But when Rose gets pregnant, her behavior becomes increasingly strange as she pulls away from her best friend, and from Michael, while she struggles to cope with her predicament. Rose cannot admit that she is pregnant (“If I say it, it will come to be true.”). She moves from denial to ineptly trying to terminate her pregnancy, to believing that she has miscarried, while deep inside, she is on a mental and emotional downward spiral. Meanwhile, Michael, in his confusion, desperation to help and fear of the wrath of his controlling father, sinks into his own kind of small madness. Inspired by the story of two teens in the US who were arrested for hiding the girl’s pregnancy and later disposing of the baby, Touchell says, “When I saw them on TV I was amazed to see they looked like normal kids. They were from good families; they just looked destroyed... . I thought, there’s more than one victim here; what went on with these kids and why did they think they had no one to go to?” This is a moving and powerfully written novel told from the alternating viewpoints of Rose and Michael with compassion and a gentle touch. It is an honest, unflinching look at the complex world of young readers.

Madness: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Scull
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Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199608034

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"Andrew Scull examines the social, historical, and culturally variable response to madness over the centuries, providing a provocative and entertaining examination of mental illness over more than two millennia."--P. [2] of cover.

How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind

La Marr Jurelle Bruce
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Author : La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Publisher : Black Outdoors: Innovations in
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1478009837

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La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of "madness" in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition.

A Mad People’s History of Madness

Dale Peterson
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Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780822974253

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A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, “a London citizen” is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves. Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.

Madness

Mary de Young
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Author : Mary de Young
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786457465

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"Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, it is also socially constructed, culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material, this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people and not others; by whom the label is applied, and with what consequences.