Madness, art, and society : beyond illness /

Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theater and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organiszd into two parts, 'Psychiatrists, Institutions, Treatment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harpin, Anna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beyond illness
  • Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question: R.D. Laing and the figure of the psychiatrist
  • I guess that this must be the place: sites of madness
  • It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient: treating madness
  • Experiences: realities, bodies, moods
  • Imagining reality: perceptual experiences on stage and screen
  • I watch myself disappear in their eyes, in their tesses, I talk loud but
  • Still I don't exist: women's bodies and psychopathology
  • Something and nothing: moods of madness.