The rapids : ways of looking at mania / Sam Twyford-Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twyford-Moore, Sam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder in literature.

Twyford-Moore, Sam--Mental health.

Twyford-Moore, Sam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

The Rapids explores how individuals with manic depression can mediate their identities, sense of agency, responsibility, and social being in a world saturated by negative media. Using a mixture of reflections on the self, literary and cinematic representations of mania, and media coverage of celebrities with mania such as Kanye West, Carrie Fisher, and Spalding Gray, the author discusses what it means to live with a diagnosis of "bipolarity" in contemporary society. There are no easy answers in this book for how people should view or encounter manic depression, particularly as it represents itself across the lifetime of someone diagnosed with the condition. Instead, with insight and empathy, Sam Twyford-Moore opens up and expands the conversation around this highly stigmatised and extremely misunderstood condition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

WAYS OF BEING SEEN

WAYS OF READING

WAYS OF SEEING

WAYS OF BEING

TWO LIVES

A LIFE

Author’s note

Works consulted

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3703-4

1-4875-3702-6

OCLC:

1154790313