Full Description
Introducing a series of reflections on different cultural and disciplinary perspectives through which madness is observed, experienced, examined and treated. This book explores the role of history in explaining madness; lay people's understanding of psychic disorder as 'mental suffering', academic philosophical discourses compared and woven together with personal experiences of madness; madness as a subtext to conflict, precariousness and struggle for identity; the globalisation of the depression 'industry'; the notion of intent in suicide; specific interpretations of classical works of literature; the links between emotional disorders and rationality; and the dynamics and activities of those who suffer from psychic disorders where viewpoints that are normally marginalised and concealed by medical expert opinions, are transformed into exercises of meaningful citizenship.
Contents
Introduction Gonzalo Araoz, Fatima Alves and Katrina Jaworski Part One: Experience and Treatment of Madness Rewriting the Asylum Diane Carpenter The Disordered Self: Philosophy, Memoir and Madness Marlene Benjamin From Lay Concepts to Therapeutic Itineraries: A Sociological Study about Mental Suffering and Mental Illness Fatima Alves Claiming Madness to Explain Deviance: Young Afghani Asylum Seekers in Distress Eleni Bolieraki Self-Fulfillment or Self-Erosion? Depression as Key Pathology of Late Modernity Bert van den Bergh Reframing the 'Mad' Intentions of Those Who Suicide Katrina Jaworski Part Two: Madness in Popular Culture and Media Madness and Psychotherapy through the Looking Glass: Scheherazade's Talking Cure Alexandra Cheira William Blake and The Road to Hell: Demystifying the Cultural Iconoclasm of the Hells Angels Jennifer Hedgecock Order and Disorder: Rational Acumen and Emotional Incompetence in the Television Detective Story E. Deidre Pribram Radio Nikosia: Mutiny on the Ship of Fools Martin Correa-Urquiza with translation by Susan M. DiGiacomo
