The dao of madness : mental illness and self-cultivation in early Chinese philosophy and medicine / Alexus McLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLeod, Alexus, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health--China.

Mental health.

Mental illness--China.

Mental illness.

Mental health services.

China.

Mental health services--China.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Chapter One lays out the dominant views of self, agency, and moral responsibility in early Chinese Philosophy. The reason for this is that these views inform the ways early Chinese thinkers approach mental illness, as well as the role they see it playing in self-cultivation as a whole (whether they view it as problematic or beneficial, for example). In this chapter I offer a view of a number of dominant conceptions of mind, body, and agency in early Chinese thought, through a number of philosophical and medical texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Self, Mind and Body, Agency

2. Illness, Disorder, and Madness

3. Feigned Madness, Ambivalence, and Doubt in Early Confucianism

4. The Wilds, Untamed, and Spontaneity: Zhuangist Views of Madness

5. Synthesis and Medicalization in Early Han Views of Mental Illness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: McLeod, Alexus, The dao of madness

ISBN:

9780197505915

0197505910

OCLC:

1241731167

Publisher Number:

99989028390