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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816549703321

Titolo

Beyond these walls : confronting madness in society, literature and art / / edited by Helen Goodman, Bernadette V. Russo and Joana Zózimo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-84888-203-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

362.19689

Soggetti

Mental illness - Social aspects

Mental illness in art

Mental illness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Helen Goodman , Bernadette V. Russo and Joana Zózimo -- Délire and Reality Contributions from the New Rhetoric / Angélica María Franco Laverde -- The Social Construction of Traumatised Young Women / Emma Tseris -- The Relationship between Creativity and Perfectionism: Problem-Solving and Impulsivity amongst a Self-Harming Population and a Non Self-Harming Population / Frances Davies -- Lay Rationalisation about Mental Suffering: A Comparative Study between Portugal and Poland / Mira Marcinów and Fátima Alves -- Living with Chronic Depression: Reconstructing Biographies and Representations about Their Own Illness / Cecília Neto and Fátima Alves -- Prescribing Antidepressants and Tranquillizers: A Case Study of Therapeutical Ideologies in GPs’ and Psychiatrists’ Medical Practice / Joana Zózimo -- The Power of Madness: A Marxist Critique of Social Constructionism / Bruce M. Z. Cohen -- The ‘Green-Eyed Monster’: Jealousy and Erotic Monomania in He Knew He Was Right and The Forsyte Saga / Helen Goodman -- Shackles of a Distant Self and the Damning Complicit / Bernadette V. Russo -- Love and Music: Representations of Madness in Tolstoy and Nabokov / Ekaterina Yasko -- Samuel Beckett’s Radio Drama: Making Sense of a ‘Radio Panopticon’ / Tzu-Ching Yeh -- Madman or Visionary: The Deconstructed World of the Sci-Fi Writer Philip K. Dick / Elaine Pigeon



-- Perversion, Madness and Crime in Young Italian Literature / Daniela Chana -- Supercalifragilistic-Sick Imagination: The Experience of Generative Imagination in the Creative Process of Pathological Drawing / Terryl Atkins -- Artistic Creativity as a Multiple Personality Order: The Case of Fernando Pessoa / Katia Mitova -- The Hysteric as Mad: Unfolding an Exquisite Corpse / Eleanor Bowen and Laura González -- Oni the Demon: Living with Schizophrenia / Claire McCurdy -- Standing on the Edge of the Abyss: Ethics of Vulnerability, Love and Forgiveness / Katrina Jaworski.