"Madness" in Australia
Author: Catharine Coleborne
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780702234064
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Why Talk About Madness?
Author: Catharine Coleborne
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 3030210960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these histories? What can these tell us about the challenges and legacies of mental health care across the world today? Offering an intervention into new ways of thinking – and talking – about ‘mad’ history, Catharine Coleborne explores the social and cultural impact of the history of the mad movement, self-help and mental health consumer advocacy from the 1960s inside a longer tradition of ‘writing madness’. Starting with a brief history of the relevance of first-person accounts, then looking at the significance of other ways of representing the psychiatric ‘patient’, ‘survivor’ or ‘consumer’ over time, this book aims to escape from dominant modes of writing about the asylum.
Overprescribing Madness
Author: Martin Whitely
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781925927535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverprescribing Madness investigates the drivers of Australia's high and increasing rates of the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness - including depression, anxiety, psychosis and ADHD. Understand the social, economic, political, and ideological drivers of the rapid increase in the rates....
The Madness Locker
Author: Eddie Russell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-29
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1922488763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Christmas Day, 1986 a seventy-year-old widow’s body was discovered inside a wheelie bin in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Despite a long and intensive investigation, the police fail to unearth a motive or identify a suspect. Lacking any clues, the police file it as a cold case. Some half a century earlier the Third Reich ramps up its offensive to arrest and deport to the East the Nazi regime’s classification of undesirables. As part of the sweep, a young girl is arrested along with her parents. They are placed in a box car and forced to endure a three-day harrowing train journey. The final stop: Auschwitz. On arrival she is separated from her parents to never see them again and is forced to suffer years of punishing labour, near-starvation and daily horrors. She is freed six years later when the Russian army invades Poland and liberates Auschwitz. Vindicated by her survival she sets out on a journey all the way around the world to Australia, in search of the one person that she blames for her ordeal in Auschwitz. Is that the clue that the police missed in trying to solve the crime?
Bedlam at Botany Bay
Author: James Dunk
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1742244556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMadness stalked the colony of New South Wales and tracing its wild path changes the way we look at our colonial history. What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history, we find out through the tireless correspondence of governors and colonial secretaries, the delicate descriptions of judges and doctors, the brazen words of firebrand politicians, and the heartbreaking letters of siblings, parents and friends. We also hear from the mad themselves. Legal and social distinctions faded as delusion and disorder took root — in convicts exiled from their homes and living under the weight of imperial justice, in ex-convicts and small settlers as they grappled with the country they had taken from its Indigenous inhabitants, and in government officers and wealthy colonists who sought to guide the course of European history in Australia. These stories of madness are woven together into a narrative about freedom and possibilities, unravelling and collapse. Bedlam at Botany Bay looks at people who found themselves not only at the edge of the world, but at the edge of sanity. It shows their worlds colliding.
Underground
Author: Suelette Dreyfus
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 085786260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.
Madness and the Military
Author: Michael Tyquin
Publisher: Arden
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781925984460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happened to soldiers who suffered psychologically in the First World War? Here, this long-ignored aspect of Australian military history is closely and compassionately examined and linked with so-called shell shock and moral injury.
Madness
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0718185641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl. Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity. Among other stories, you'll meet the husband with a jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady who wants her guests to stay forever, the man whose taste for pork leads him astray and the wife with a pathological fear of being late. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Cruelty, Lust, Deception, Innocence, Trickery, War and Fear.
Dolphin Bay: Yarns and other madness from Australia's remote north west
Author: Tim Hargreaves
Publisher: Tim Hargreaves
Published: 2016-12-20
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0980521602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly entertaining and delightful read... allows the reader to indulge their imagination... how I enjoyed the era, the places and the fascinating characters... Rod Sweatmen, who started life in a tent as the son of battlers on the banks of the Gascoyne River and went on to become a member of the Legislative Assembly in West Australia's State Parliament.
Running Like China
Author: Sophie Hardcastle
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0733634273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a talented emerging Australian writer, a brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to find their way through. 'When I was eleven years old Mum told me, "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.' One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she'd always known had disappeared. She was constantly tired, with no energy, no motivation and no sense of enjoyment for surfing, friends, conversations, movies, parties, family - for anything. Her hours became empty. And then, the month before she turned seventeen, that emptiness filled with an intense, unbearable sadness that made her scream and tear at her skin. Misdiagnosed with chronic fatigue, then major depression, then temporal lobe epilepsy, she was finally told - three years, two suicide attempts and five hospital admissions later - that she had Bipolar 1 Disorder. In this honest and beautifully told memoir, Sophie lays bare her story of mental illness - of a teenage girl using drugs, alcohol and sex in an attempt to fix herself; of her family's anguish and her loss of self. It is a brave and hopeful story of adaptation, learning to accept and of ultimately realising that no matter how deep you have sunk, the surface is always within reach. Running Like China shatters the silence and smashes the taboos around mental illness. It is an unforgettable story.
