Mad/Bad/Sad : Philosophical, Political, Poetic and Artistic Reflections on the History of Madness.

Intro -- Mad/Sad/Bad: Philosophical, Political, Poetic and Artistic Reflections on the History of Madness -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: The History of Madness: Philosophy and Politics -- Love and Madness in Plato's Phaedrus -- Uncontrollable Passion or a Deeper Ethical Problem: Revisiting Medea from a Feminist Reading -- Madness or Civilisation: A Draft -- Madness as a Philosophical Problem in Hegel -- Can We Understand Madness without Rationalising It? Sense, Common-Sense and Nonsense in Psychoanalytic Explanation -- The Uses for Respectable Madness in the Irish Provincial Press: 1800-1840 -- Madness and Punishment during Apartheid: Insane, Political and Common-Law Prisoners in a South African Jail -- Part 2: The Experience of Madness and Creativity: Metaphors and Performance -- E.A. Poe's 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether': Siting America's Insanity -- An Unsound Mind in an Unsound Body: Bodily Manifestations of Mental Distress in Women's Madness Narratives -- Maddening Passion in The Morgesons -- Madness: A Guilt, a Consistent or a Choice? The 19th Century Polish Version of a Mad or Bad Dilemma -- The Visibility of Difference: Gender and Suicide in Psy-Knowledge -- Roaring Poetry, Singing Frenzy: A Transcultural Enquiry on Lovesickness -- 'Because the drummed rhythm was seven…' -- Categorical Impulses: Classifying Behaviour as a Means of Control -- Along the Edge: Accompanying Passages: An Account of a Journey with My Son into Psychosis -- 'Their Lives A Storm Whereon They Ride': The Affective Disorders and College Composition -- Institutional Autoethnography as Relational-Reflexive Testimony: Refuting 'Obsessive-Compulsive' Personality.

Of Congenial Paranoids and Enlightened Shadows: Theatrical Madness in Titzina's Folie à Deux: Dreams from a Psychiatric Hospital and Marta Carrasco's White of a Shadow: Remembering Camille Claudel -- Madness: An Escape or a Dead End?.

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