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Author : John Weir Perry
Release : 1976
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Roots of Renewal in Myth and Madness by : John Weir Perry
Download or read book Roots of Renewal in Myth and Madness written by John Weir Perry. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Youngquist
Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Madness and Blake's Myth by : Paul Youngquist
Download or read book Madness and Blake's Myth written by Paul Youngquist. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Professor Ussher
Release : 2011-03-28
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Madness of Women by : Jane Professor Ussher
Download or read book The Madness of Women written by Jane Professor Ussher. This book was released on 2011-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness. Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include: The genealogy of women’s madness – incarceration of difficult or deviant women Regulation through treatment Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence Women’s narratives of resistance This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.
Author : Markus Gabriel
Release : 2009-10-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mythology, Madness, and Laughter by : Markus Gabriel
Download or read book Mythology, Madness, and Laughter written by Markus Gabriel. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Žižek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom. Engaging with three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte, Gabriel, and Žižek, who here shows himself to be one of the most erudite and important scholars of German idealism, ask how is it possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, including the problem of madness and everydayness in Hegel, this hugely important book aims to reinvigorate a philosophy of finitude and contingency, topics at the forefront of contemporary European philosophy. MARKUS GABRIEL is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, NY. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), and Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006).
Author : Judith Schlesinger
Release : 2012
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Insanity Hoax by : Judith Schlesinger
Download or read book The Insanity Hoax written by Judith Schlesinger. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mad genius is a favorite cultural stereotype, but despite media caricatures, popular expectations, and the extravagant claims of a few, there's no scientific proof that creative people are crazier than anyone else. Drawing on three decades of research, psychologist Judith Schlesinger tracks the myth from its birth in ancient Greece to modern times, showing how it distorts society's view of our most exceptional minds"--Page 4 of cover.
