Muses, mystics, madness : the diagnosis and celebration of mental illness / edited by Anna Klambauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klambauer, Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Physiological aspects.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Madness - a word of many different meanings, a condition with the potential to destroy, harm, liberate, and inspire in equal measures. This volume explores madness from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It emphasises the need for improved psychological treatment as well as the necessity to enter a dialogue with madness. Apart from the potentially devastating impact mental illness might have on the patient, the positive side of madness is also explored. What if madness is a muse that inspires the artist to create a masterpiece? What if madness is a mystic who connects us to a greater, transcendental truth? What if madness is a mantle the frees us to speak our minds in a hostile environment that threatens to punish us for our deviant thoughts? It is this balancing act between creative and illuminating madness on the one, and destructive and harmful insanity on the other hand that this volume explores.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Anna Klambauer

The Boundaries of Madness: Seeking to Understand the Experiences of Those Who Receive a Personality Disorder Diagnosis, or ‘Tales from the Borderlands’ / Andrew Shepherd , Caroline Sanders and Jenny Shaw

The Meaning of Psychosis in Works of Eva Syřišťová / Jan Škrob

The Mind Besieged: Demonically-Induced Obsession in Monastic Psychology in Late Antiquity / Inbar Graiver

Holy Water or Prozac? How the Catholic Church in Poland Sees Mental Disorders / Katarzyna Szmigiero

Art as a Sanctuary for the Mad: Six Characteristics of Mystical Experience and Their Visual Accompaniment in Contemporary Art / Maria Schlachter and David Rastas

Between Inspiration and Insanity: Madness and Art in Chuck Palahniuk’s Novel Diary / Anna Klambauer

Creativity and Deviancy: A Sliding Scale between Markets, Movements and Madness / Ja-Naé Duane

A Way of Opposition: Turkish Literature and Instrumental Madness / Kadir Dede.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-432-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884328 DOI