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The Madness of Women

The Madness of Women
Author: Jane Professor Ussher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136656324

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Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a non-pathologising women centred way? The Madness of Women addresses these questions through a rigorous exploration of the myths and realities of women's madness. Drawing on academic and clinical experience, including case studies and in-depth interviews, as well as on the now extensive critical literature in the field of mental health, Jane Ussher presents a critical multifactorial analysis of women's madness that both addresses the notion that madness is a myth, and yet acknowledges the reality and multiple causes of women's distress. Topics include: The genealogy of women’s madness – incarceration of difficult or deviant women Regulation through treatment Deconstrucing depression, PMS and borderline personality disorder Madness as a reasonable response to objectification and sexual violence Women’s narratives of resistance This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, counselling and nursing.


Madness and Blake's Myth

Madness and Blake's Myth
Author: Paul Youngquist
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271039612

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Mythology, Madness, and Laughter

Mythology, Madness, and Laughter
Author: Markus Gabriel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441115773

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Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Žižek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom. Engaging with three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte, Gabriel, and Žižek, who here shows himself to be one of the most erudite and important scholars of German idealism, ask how is it possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, including the problem of madness and everydayness in Hegel, this hugely important book aims to reinvigorate a philosophy of finitude and contingency, topics at the forefront of contemporary European philosophy. MARKUS GABRIEL is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, NY. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), and Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006).


Madness at the Gates of the City

Madness at the Gates of the City
Author: Barry Spector
Publisher: Regent Press Printers & Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Civilization, Modern
ISBN: 9781587901737

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By looking at American history, politics, and popular culture through the lenses of Greek mythology, indigenous wisdom, and archetypal psychology, the author discovers new hope in very old ways of thinking.


The Golden Spruce

The Golden Spruce
Author: John Vaillant
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-03-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307371328

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE “Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York Times The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environmental protest, Hadwin attacked the tree with a chainsaw. Two days later, it fell, horrifying an entire community. Not only was the golden spruce a scientific marvel and a tourist attraction, it was sacred to the Haida people and beloved by local loggers. Shortly after confessing to the crime, Hadwin disappeared under suspicious circumstances and is missing to this day. As John Vaillant deftly braids together the strands of this thrilling mystery, he brings to life the ancient beauty of the coastal wilderness, the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida, and the harrowing world of logging—the most dangerous land-based job in North America.


Vengeance in Reverse

Vengeance in Reverse
Author: Mark R. Anspach
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1628952903

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How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as he draws on ethnography, literature, psychotherapy, and the theory of René Girard to explore some of the fundamental mechanisms of human interaction. Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, the first part of the book outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity, while the second part traces the emergence of transcendence in collective myths and individual delusions. From the peacemaking rituals of prestate societies to the paradoxical structure of consciousness, Anspach takes the reader on an intellectual journey that begins with the problem of how to deceive violence and ends with the riddle of how one can deceive oneself.


Women and Madness

Women and Madness
Author: Phyllis Chesler
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 164160039X

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Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more.


Charlotte Sophia

Charlotte Sophia
Author: Tina Andrews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998226071

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A German Princess rises to become Queen of England as Consort to "mad" King George III. But when does her King, her country or her lover discover she is actually of African descent, and how does she change England because of it.


The Insanity Hoax

The Insanity Hoax
Author: Judith Schlesinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780983698241

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"The mad genius is a favorite cultural stereotype, but despite media caricatures, popular expectations, and the extravagant claims of a few, there's no scientific proof that creative people are crazier than anyone else. Drawing on three decades of research, psychologist Judith Schlesinger tracks the myth from its birth in ancient Greece to modern times, showing how it distorts society's view of our most exceptional minds"--Page 4 of cover.