Path of Madness
Author: Wisdom Chimezie Anierobi
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 108
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In the Mind of Madness
Author: Susan Robertson
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2024-09-27
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Mind of Madness is a collection of poetry that deals with different aspects of life. It starts with poems about what it is like in the mind of someone with bipolar depression and anxiety. Next there are poems about different types of love such as romantic and a mother's love. It then goes on to family and losing a loved one. The next section expresses poems related to one's faith. Finally at the end of the book, the poems capture snapshots of experiences that happen as life unfolds. As you read through these poems, you may relate to one or more of them. Some of them touch on difficult topics. As it says in the introduction, your stories are not all the same, but it helps to share the load. Just maybe, these words will make you think and provide a new outlook for you.
Hegel's Theory of Madness
Author: Daniel Berthold-Bond
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780791425053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Book of Madness and Cures
Author: Regina O'Melveny
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0316195820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
A Philosophy of Madness
Author: Wouter Kusters
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 0262359642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn incredible publishing event: a philosopher draws on his own experience of madness as he takes readers on an unforgettble journey through the philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis--and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of academia, allowing philosphers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness--Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term--coexist, one mirroring the other. Drawing on his own experience of madness--two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart--Kusters argues that psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality.
At the Mountains of Madness
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1365199541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding stories"--Copyright page.
Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3
Author: W F Bynum
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1136525483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. The final Volume III offers works around the psychiatry of the Asylum in countries such as Denmark, British India, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France and America.
Collections of Madness
Author: Asil Nottarts
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0595341276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollections of Madness: Amateur Experiments in Genius begins with e-mail conversations between three poets, Jane, Asil, and Nod, as they contemplate the answers to life's most difficult questions. Together, they decide to write a book and let their findings be known. The friends experience the universe together, but also individually on separate, bumpy paths. Jane, Asil and Nod share their insights, disillusionments, and life-changing epiphanies. In "Questions from the Lonely Girl," Jane Smith explores how she is learning to breathe her own eclectic beauty into the world. In Asil Nottarts's section, "socio-political, purely poetic, mindless ranting, and the creative process," her whimsical poetry asks such introspective questions as "Who am I, really?" and "Is there ultimately any difference?" In "neo/fight blues," poet Nod Nihill2 offers a wide range of verse including creative solutions for a world in crisis, the contents of a fortune cookie, and patterns of rejection. In Collections of Madness, the prolific words of Smith, Nottarts, and Nihill2 will entertain, enrage, excite, and transport you from the profound to the profane--and from the mundane to the extraordinary.
History of Madness
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 113447380X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis translation of The History of Madness in the Classical Age is the first English edition of the original, complete French text and includes important material that until now was unavailable.
The Spiritual Gift of Madness
Author: Seth Farber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1594777039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation • Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening • Explores the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement • Reveals how those seen as “mad” must embrace their spiritual gifts to help the coming global spiritual transition Many of the great prophets of the past experienced madness--a breakdown followed by a breakthrough, spiritual death followed by rebirth. With the advent of modern psychiatry, the budding prophets of today are captured and transformed into chronic mental patients before they can flower into the visionaries and mystics they were intended to become. As we approach the tipping point between extinction and global spiritual awakening, there is a deep need for these prophets to embrace their spiritual gifts. To make this happen, we must learn to respect the sanctity of madness. We need to cultivate Mad Pride. Exploring the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement as well as building upon psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s revolutionary theories, Seth Farber, Ph.D., explains that diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other kinds of “mad” are not ill but simply experiencing different forms of spiritual awakening: they are seeing and feeling what is wrong with society and what needs to be done to change it. Farber shares his interviews with former schizophrenics who now lead successful and inspiring lives. He shows that it is impossible for society to change as long as the mad are suppressed because they are our catalysts of social change. By reclaiming their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural revitalization, the mad--by seeding new visions for our future--can help humanity overcome the spiritual crisis that endangers our survival and lead us to a higher and long-awaited stage of spiritual development.
