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From Madness to Mental Health
No full textAvailable beginning February 15, this anthology of primary sources chronicles the history of madness and psychiatry in western civilization, from ancient Israel to contemporary randomized clinical trials. It also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives of mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein. For more information click here. To hear an interview with the author, click here
From Madness to Mental Health
No full textAvailable beginning February 15, this anthology of primary sources chronicles the history of madness and psychiatry in western civilization, from ancient Israel to contemporary randomized clinical trials. It also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives of mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein. For more information click here. To hear an interview with the author, click here
Rezension zur Ausstellung Madness & Modernity
No full textMadness & Modernity. Kunst und Wahn in Wien um 1900. WienMusem Karlsplatz (21.01.2010 – 02.05.2010) Künstler spezialisieren sich auf „psychologische Portraits“ oder inszenieren sich als „wahnsinnig“, AnstaltspatientInnen betätigen sich künstlerisch, Jugendstil-Architekten planen psychiatrische Kliniken und Mitglieder der Wiener Werkstätte entwerfen Interieurs für Sanatorien – alles Zufall oder Wien um 1900? Diese Frage geht die Ausstellung „Madness & Modernity. Kunst und Wahn um 190..
Interview: Eghigian on the History of Madness
No full textAs mentioned in an earlier post, Greg Eghigian has just published From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and its Treatment in Western Civilization (Rutgers University Press). It is an edited collection of documents covering the history of madness and mental illness from ancient times to the present. You can now hear a podcast interview with him about the book. Just click her
Interview: Eghigian on the History of Madness
No full textAs mentioned in an earlier post, Greg Eghigian has just published From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and its Treatment in Western Civilization (Rutgers University Press). It is an edited collection of documents covering the history of madness and mental illness from ancient times to the present. You can now hear a podcast interview with him about the book. Just click her
CFP - International Health Humanities Conference 2010 “Madness and Literature”
No full text1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010 “Madness and Literature” The Institute of Mental Health is hosting The 1st International Health Humanities Conference at The University of Nottingham, UK from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th AUGUST 2010. The theme of the conference, Madness and Literature, seeks to bring critical focus to three areas: Literature, Psychiatry, Philosophy Reflecting the interdisciplinary work of the Institute of Mental Health, and the multifaceted nature of the confe..
CFP - International Health Humanities Conference 2010 “Madness and Literature”
No full text1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010 “Madness and Literature” The Institute of Mental Health is hosting The 1st International Health Humanities Conference at The University of Nottingham, UK from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th AUGUST 2010. The theme of the conference, Madness and Literature, seeks to bring critical focus to three areas: Literature, Psychiatry, Philosophy Reflecting the interdisciplinary work of the Institute of Mental Health, and the multifaceted nature of the confe..
Exposition - Madness & Modernity - Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900
No full textIn January 2010, the Wien Museum opened for four months an exhibition entitled 'Madness & Modernity - Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900'. For more information, click here
Georgian projections of French Revolutionary madness
Get PDFIn this article James Baker explains how James Gillray (1756-1815) engraved the classic image of revolutionary madness. Baker compares and discusses how Gillray and Cruikshank represented madness
Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
Get PDFThis thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of demonic possession (which shares many of the same characteristics of madness) in medieval exempla. These chapters are followed by a detailed look at the uses of madness in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and in two autobiographical accounts of madness, the Book of Margery Kempe and Hoccleve’s Series.
The experience of madness can both subvert and reinforce gender roles. Madness is commonly seen as an invasion of the self, which, in a culture which commonly identifies masculinity with bodily intactness, can prove problematic for male sufferers. Equally, madness, in prompting violent, ungoverned behaviour, can undermine traditional definitions of femininity. These rules can, however, be reversed. Malory’s Morte Darthur presents a version of masculinity which is actually enhanced by madness; equally divergent is Margery Kempe’s largely positive account of madness as a catalyst for personal transformation. While there is a certain consistency in the literary treatment of madness – motifs and images are repeated across genres – the way in which these images are used can alter radically. There is no single model of madness in medieval literature: rather, it is always fluid. Madness, like gender, remains open to interpretation
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