Between Sanity and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Sanity and Madness write by Allan V. Horwitz. This book was released on 2020. Between Sanity and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Homer to Neuroscience traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions about the nature of mental illness and its boundaries with sanity. What distinguishes mental illnesses from other sorts of devalued conditions and from normality? Should medical, religious, psychological, legal, or no authority at all respond to the mentally ill? Why do some people become mad? What treatments might help them recover? Despite general agreement across societies regarding definitions about the pole of madness, huge disparities exist on where dividing lines should be placed between it and sanity and even if there is any clear demarcation at all. Various groups have provided answers to these puzzles that are both widely divergent and surprisingly similar to current understandings"--
Sanity, Madness, and the Family
Sanity, Madness, and the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanity, Madness, and the Family write by R. D. Laing. This book was released on 1974. Sanity, Madness, and the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A First-Rate Madness
A First-Rate Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A First-Rate Madness write by Nassir Ghaemi. This book was released on 2012-06-26. A First-Rate Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestseller “A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe “A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post “Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the mind.
Sanity, Madness, Transformation
Sanity, Madness, Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sanity, Madness, Transformation write by Ross Greig Woodman. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Sanity, Madness, Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and that it has been likewise fundamental to the emergence of the modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye, madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are drawn from an earlier Romantic ambivalence about madness. This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book that approached Romanticism from an original psychoanalytic perspective by returning madness to its proper place in the creative psyche. Sanity, Madness, Transformation is a provocative hybrid of theory, literary criticism, and autobiography and is yet another decisive step in a distinguished academic career.
Madness and Civilization
Madness and Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness and Civilization write by Michel Foucault. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Madness and Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
