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Dancing with Ophelia : reconnecting madness, creativity, and love / Jeanne Ellen Petrolle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrolle, Jean, author.
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petrolle, Jea--Mental health.
- Petrolle, Jea.
- People with bipolar disorder--United States--Biography.
- People with bipolar disorder.
- Mentally ill--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Mentally ill.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, 2018.
- Summary:
- Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Chapter One: Through the Looking Glass
- Becoming Ophelia
- Chapter Two: Where the Wild Things Are
- Living the Bacchanalian Myth
- Dionysian Madness and Creativity
- Chapter Threee: Scape, Flight, Freedom, and Survival
- From Horror to Horror
- Turning Madness into Creativity
- Religious Delusion or Religious Awakening?
- Chapter Four: Mad Love
- Fantasy Love Becomes Creative Ambition
- Chasing Mysterious Coherence
- Chapter Five: Passions of the Mind
- Creativity: Imagination as Work Instead of Pathology
- Love and Work
- Blending Imagination and Reality in Folk Life
- Chapter Six: Traveling in the Underworld
- Lexicons of Trauma
- Languaging Mystical Experience
- Depth and Darkness
- Underworld Knowledge
- The Underworld Traveler as Crone
- Chapter Seven: Dark Nights of the Soul
- Fire of Love
- Chapter Eight: Burning Alive and Rising from the Dead
- To Burn or to Rise
- Burned Alive
- Burning into Brilliance
- Culture and the Construction of Pathology
- Chapter Nine: The Power of the Paradigm
- The Schizophrenia "Conundrum"
- The Power in Paradigm Shift
- The Economic Power of Paradigms
- Does the Paradigm Work?
- Complementary Rather than Competing Paradigms
- Chapter Ten: Things We Do With Words
- Does Saying Make It So?
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438468808
- 1438468806
- OCLC:
- 1013825632
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