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Dancing with Ophelia : reconnecting madness, creativity, and love / Jeanne Ellen Petrolle.

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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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