... of mental health problems were searched: All online issues of Asylum Magazine for the past 10 years and the websites of Recovery in the Bin, Mad in America and Madness Canada were hand-searched for documents. The VOICES typology ^{17 , 22} listed 13 purposes for lived experience narratives...

...Andrew Griffiths Two stories in Kipling’s 1888 collection Plain Tales From the Hills signal an interest in madness and, more specifically, in the representation of madness. Each story describes a breakdown. ‘Thrown Away’ recounts the events leading up to and immediately following...

... up with incurable patients from the 1870s onwards, the fear of madness was at its height. Neurasthenia held such cultural power and fascination only because it touched on this deeper fear of genuine madness. Men’s madness, and the fear of breaking down, were part of larger public conversations...

... view, which asserts that mental illness or “madness” is something to celebrate. Rashed explains how the Mad Pride activists have swung the pendulum toward a model that parallels the social model of disability. According to this approach, mental illness is viewed merely as a variation of human...

... of the subtleties of Gray’s representation of the complex and often damaging intertwining of the desire for power and the creative subject. Alasdair Gray Scottish nationalism madness humanism creativity postmodernism You see, I found Tillyard’s study of the epic in Dennistoun public library, and he said...

... these insights with his literary writings illuminates the psychiatric origins of the ‘Mad Tea-Party’ and characters such as the Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the organization and methods of mid-Victorian pauper lunatic asylums and their treatment of impoverished workers. Likewise...

... masculinity, and increasing rates of madness. While the sociological concept of moral panic is typically used to understand contemporary events, recent scholarship suggests the term can usefully be pushed back to include nineteenth-century topics. ⁷ The classic moral panic, drawing on latent fears...

... One (1605) purports to be an historical chronicle of the exploits of a mad Manchegan knight, a conceit which Don Quijote, Part Two (1615) develops by staging encounters between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and characters who have read the ‘true history’ of Part One. This structure culminates...

... room and she twisted and broke off the strong lead pipe for conveying water to the bath. She had not to be locked up previously. ¹² Aside from the insight they provide into the depiction of madness at sea, these two cases reveal suspicions that Jane and Bridget were deliberately shipped...

... for Pleasure, or for Fear. ⁴ In Part One, the mad-song most closely based on a narrative episode in Cervantes's novel appears. Don Quixote and Sancho encounter Cardenio roaming mad in the mountains, venting his madness in the song ‘Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will’. D'Urfey's...

... but is of humble origins. What matters, however, is that Maria (a common name chosen, as we are told, at random) will be able to take care of Guglielmo by creating a marital nest in which his madness will transfigure her into another imaginary Venus. In this case, survival is possible, since domesticity and its...

...PETER BARTLETT law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity © 2001 The Society for the Social History of Medicine DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES Legal Madness in the Nineteenth Century By PETER BARTLETT...

...ANDREW SCULL © 1993 Th* Society for the Sotiat History of Medicine Museums of Madness Revisited By ANDREW SCULL* SUMMARY. This paper reviews the development of the historiography of madness in eighteen- and nineteenth-century England over the past...

... power.” antipsychiatry Binswanger Ludwig Birth of the Clinic The Foucault Daumézon Georges Deleuze Gilles Der Gestaltkreis Weizsäcker Dream and Existence Binswanger École Normale Supérieure existentialism Foucault Michel Fresnes prison Freud Sigmund Guattari Félix History of Madness...

...This chapter examines the school of writing that Catullus belongs to, which can be identified as his place in Roman literature. It argues that Catullus' poetry is rooted in the Greek concept of poetic madness, a mode of writing that can be derived from sudden bursts of poetic inspiration or passion...

... of civilization to ascribe Gein’s deviance to the soil in the area where he lived—the so-called Dead Heart region—which they imagined as the edge of the frontier and civilization itself. At the local level, Gein’s neighbors described his madness as stemming from a racialized distance from Enlightenment norms...

...This chapter’s aim will be to illustrate Joyce’s attempt to textualize his personal experience with illness, through the analysis of a very particular piece of writing, namely the fragment “Twilight of Blindness Madness Descends on Swift”. Placed at the border between private and public writing...

...This chapter examines Lovecraft's life and work between 1930 and 1931. It describes his resolution of many of the philosophical issues that had concerned him in prior years; his writing of At the Mountains of Madness and ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’; and his correspondence with pulp...

...This chapter examines the significance of the imagination, beauty, madness, and Manichean despair in the ghetto as represented in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings. James’s novel suggests the imagination’s importance to the slave sublime condition and apperception...

... suicide, this chapter unpacks the equivalence between martyrdom and madness, traces the subversiveness of self-destruction by the enslaved, and problematizes the absolutization of the principle of humanity. Althusser Louis Balibar Étienne “man ” modernity sovereignty subjectivity truth Cartesian...