Madness in Plural Contexts : Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge.

Intro -- Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Madness, its Diagnosis and Interpretation -- Recognising Madness in Others, Relativizing Madness in Oneself: From Lay Concepts to Therapeutic Itineraries -- Claiming Madness to Explain Deviance: Young Asylum Seekers in Distress -- 'Psychologisation' of Madness: The Problem of Possession -- The 'Mad' Intentions of Those Who Suicide -- Self-Fulfilment or Self-Erosion? Depression as Key Pathology of Late Modernity -- Part II: Madness, Identities, Litreature and the Media -- Madness and Psychotherapy through the Looking Glass: The Case of King Shahryar's Ma(d)gic Internal Wound and Fair(y) Scheherazade -- Patrick McGrath Searching for Meaning in the Asylum -- Illness Identity in Madness Narratives -- Order and Disorder: Television Detectives and Emotional Illness -- Incorporating the Uncanny: Das Unheimliche as a Cultural Experience -- Green with Madness: Absinthe-Induced Madness and its Use in the Theatre of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

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