Decoding Madness
Decoding Madness

Author: Richard Lettieri

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 163388693X

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Dealing with some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, forensic neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Lettieri gives a behind-the-scenes look at criminal psychology through case studies from his over 30 years of experience as a court-appointed and privately retained psychologist. With cases like Michael, who stabbed his mother in the back believing she was the evil force causing the sun to descend upon the earth and gobble him up, and Tina, who seriously injured her boyfriend and stabbed his son to death, Decoding Madness is filled with gripping stories and forensic analysis. Through psychological examination, it is the author’s job to conclude whether these individuals are truly guilty and understand their actions are wrong, or if these individuals are not guilty by reason of insanity and instead require treatment. Decoding Madness offers a nuanced psychological understanding of defendants and their personal complexities beyond the usual clinical accounts. The book introduces the novel idea of the daimonic as a basic force of human nature that is the source of our constructive and destructive capacities and argues for an update to the criminal justice system’s perspective on rationality and conscious thinking. Featuring new findings and personal insights, Dr. Lettieri presents an engrossing view of the psychology of defendants accused of committing heinous crimes and the insight that they provide towards the human mind.

Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature

Author: Laura Deane

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1498547338

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This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial perspective. This book rethinks women’s madness in the context of Australian colonialism. Taking novels of madness by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville as its point of critical departure, it applies a post-Reconciliation lens to the study of Australia’s gender and racial codes, to place Australian sexism and misogyny in their proper colonial context. Employing madness as a frame to rethink postcolonial theorizing in Australia, Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature psychoanalyses colonialism to argue that Australia suffers from a cultural pathology based in the strategic forgetting of colonial violence. This pathology takes the form of colonial paranoia about ‘race’ and gender, producing distorted gender codes and ways of being Australian. This book maps the contours of Australian colonial paranoia, weaving feminist literary theory, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory with poststructuralist approaches to reassess the traditional canon of critical madness scholarship, and the place of women’s writing within it. This provocative work marks a radical departure from much recent feminist, cultural, and postcolonial criticism, and will be essential reading for students of Australian literature, cultural studies and gender studies wanting a new insight into how the Australian psyche is shaped by settler colonialism.

A Poetics of Minds and Madness
A Poetics of Minds and Madness

Author: XINRAN YANG

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-10-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9819952492

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​This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology), it adopts an indirect empirical approach to the fictional representation of madness. The American writer Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is chosen as the primary text of investigation, whereas due consideration is also given to other madness narratives when necessary. This book not only demonstrates the value of reading and rereading literary classics in the modern era, but also sheds light on the studies of cognitive narratology, cognitive poetics, madness narratives and literature in general.

Issue 11
Issue 11

Author: Connor Whiteley

Publisher: CGD Publishing

Published: 2023-11-17

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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Over 35,000 words of psychological knowledge, theory and practice by bestselling writer Connor Whiteley in one great collection. If you want great, fascinating information covering a wide range of psychological topics for a cheaper price you NEED to buy this issue! BUY NOW! Issue 11 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books: · Gamification Of Autism: A Guide To Clinical Psychology, Cyberpsychology and Psychotherapy · Clinical Psychology Reflections Volume 2 AND contains 5 enthralling blog posts: · 5 Signs It Might Be Time To Start Therapy · What Are The Benefits of Prioritising Friendships? · 5 Signs of Psychopathic Personality · Introduction To Personality Psychology · 5 Ways To Reduce Holiday Stress BUY NOW!

Spaces of Madness
Spaces of Madness

Author: Eunice Rojas

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0739190873

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Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure of the asylum in Argentine literature has evolved along with the institution itself. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.

Hegel's Theory of Madness
Hegel's Theory of Madness

Author: Daniel Berthold-Bond

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780791425053

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This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.

Madness in Medieval French Literature
Madness in Medieval French Literature

Author: Sylvia Huot

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780199252121

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Written by one of the leading critics in medieval studies, this new book explores the representations of madness in medieval French literature. Drawing on a range of modern psychoanalytic theories and an impressive range of texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Sylvia Huot focuses on the relationship between madness and identity, both personal and collective, and demonstrates the cultural significance of madness in the Middle Ages.

Moral Psychology
Moral Psychology

Author: Connor Whiteley

Publisher: CGD Publishing

Published: 2025-02-21

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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People do morally right and wrong behaviours. Why? Serving as an engaging, easy-to-understand introduction to moral psychology, international Bestseller Connor Whiteley guides readers through a journey to understand our morality. From its basis in social psychology, group processes and biological psychology to its applied applications and morality in the real world. Connor Whiteley guides readers through it all in his engaging style that keeps readers reading. By the end of this book, you’ll understand: · What Is Morality? · What Influences Morality? · Why Power Corrupts? · How Morality Works In The Real World? · And So Much More Don’t miss this brilliant, engaging and fascinating moral psychology book. BUY NOW! Moral Psychology Content Introduction Part One: Introduction To Morality And Moral Psychology Introduction To Moral Reasoning, Moral Judgements And Moral Foundations Theory Principles And Theories Of Morality Introduction To Being Virtuous And Amoral Part Two: Influences On Morality Are Infants Moral? How Does Categorising Our Relationships Impact Our Moral Judgements? How Does Social Influence Impact Morality? Why People Conform? Controversies Of The Experiments How Did Morality Evolve? Why Is Morality Powerful? Part Three: Grey Areas Of Morality Introduction To Moral Grey Areas What Is The Social Anchoring Of Right And Wrong? What Is The Moral Self And How Does It Connect To Moral Grey Areas? The Interplay Between Thoughts And Experiences Why Moral Judgements Aren’t Always Bad? How Power Corrupts? Part Four: Real World Morality 5 Signs Of Psychopathic Personality Why Are We Divided On What Makes A Good Society? How Does Lying Evolve Across The Lifespan? Bystanderism And Altruism Why People Don’t Help? Altruism Morality And The Basics Of Cult Psychology How Do Narcissists Use Cult Leader Tactics? How Lying Destroys Self-Esteem? Conclusion: Why We Always Need To Be Moral In Psychology And Why There Are No Excuses In This Book

Liminality in Fantastic Fiction
Liminality in Fantastic Fiction

Author: Sandor Klapcsik

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-01-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0786488433

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This critical work diversifies Victor Turner's concept of liminality, a basic category of postmodernism, in which distinct categories and hierarchies are questioned and limits erode. Liminality involves an oscillation between cultural institutions, genre conventions, narrative perspectives, and thematic binary oppositions. Grounded on this notion, the text investigates the liminality in Agatha Christie's detective fiction, Neil Gaiman's fantasy stories, and Stanislaw Lem's and Philip K. Dick's science fiction. Through an examination of destabilized norms, this analysis demonstrates that liminality is a key element in the changing trends of fantastic texts.