Tag: Madness

Free Download Darian Leader, "What is Madness?"
English | ISBN: 0141047356 | 2012 | 368 pages | EPUB | 782 KB
What is Madness? is Darian Leader’s probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in between

Free Download Arlie Loughnan, "Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law "
English | ISBN: 0199698597 | 2012 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Free Download Laura Deane, "Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature: Australian Psychoses"
English | ISBN: 149854732X | 2017 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1341 KB
This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial perspective. This book rethinks women’s madness in the context of Australian colonialism. Taking novels of madness by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville as its point of critical departure, it applies a post-Reconciliation lens to the study of Australia’s gender and racial codes, to place Australian sexism and misogyny in their proper colonial context. Employing madness as a frame to rethink postcolonial theorizing in Australia, Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature psychoanalyses colonialism to argue that Australia suffers from a cultural pathology based in the strategic forgetting of colonial violence. This pathology takes the form of colonial paranoia about ‘race’ and gender, producing distorted gender codes and ways of being Australian. This book maps the contours of Australian colonial paranoia, weaving feminist literary theory, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory with poststructuralist approaches to reassess the traditional canon of critical madness scholarship, and the place of women’s writing within it. This provocative work marks a radical departure from much recent feminist, cultural, and postcolonial criticism, and will be essential reading for students of Australian literature, cultural studies and gender studies wanting a new insight into how the Australian psyche is shaped by settler colonialism.

Free Download Culture, Madness and Wellbeing: Beyond the Sociology of Insanity by Jason Lee
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 3031375297 | 9.3 MB
This book is a unique study of the historical, theoretical, and cultural interpretations of ‘madness’ including interviews with those who have experiences of ‘madness’. It takes a transdisciplinary approach, employing historical, psychological, and sociological perspectives through an intersectional lens. This work explains how the prioritization of thinking over feeling in Western thought means the transrational imagination has frequently been negated in tackling mental health with detrimental results. This book, therefore, examines creative media, especially film, as a transrational form of human expression for healing and wellbeing, along with television, theatre, social media, music, and computer games. ‘Madness’ with regards to gender, sexuality, adolescence, and class in media and film is interrogated, as well as ‘madness’ and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry. It analyses group psychosis, including celebrity culture, and the ‘madness’ of leaders and gurus. This book challenges the lasting influence of the Age of Reason by furthering our understanding of the value of transrationality and the diverse ways of being human.

Free Download Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009430378 | 361 Pages | PDF | 3.4 MB
Mandatory Madness offers a fresh new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of a wide range of archival and published material in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, Chris Sandal-Wilson reveals how a range of actors responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East, Mandatory Madness highlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.

Free Download Carol Pogash, "Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case"
English | 2007 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0061147702 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
She was fifteen when she visited the therapist; still a teen when they had sex. She was twenty-five when she married him and forty-four when she killed him.

Free Download Alejandra Pizarnik, Yvette Siegert, "Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 – 1972"
English | 2016 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0811223965 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.

Free Download Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness Through Film (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYK495N6 | 2023 | 14 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 429 MB
Author: James Charney
Narrator: Grover Gardner
A unique exploration of how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films. The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters’ inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness. Based on the highly popular course that Charney taught at Yale University and the American University of Rome, Madness at the Movies introduces listeners to films that may be new to them and encourages them to view these films in an entirely new way.

Free Download The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, UK Edition by Jonathan Rosen
English | April 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241647444, 1802063250 | 576 pages | True EPUB | 0.86 MB
‘Extraordinary… Magisterial… A remarkable meditation on friendship, success, madness and violence that refuses to oversimplify’ Guardian (Book of the Day)

Free Download Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843 (The Italian List) by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Alta L. Price
English | March 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1803091150 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 6.4 MB
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.