Description
A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unpacking the political, historical, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of madness and mental distress in literary and visual cultures.
Raising vital questions about the nature of madness and the limits of personhood, the practices of care and politics of reality, this valuable book asks how the various disciplines it represents might shape more radical and tender horizons for those living under the descriptions of mental illness.
This is a book for anyone concerned with examining new models of interdependent psychic-sociality. Put simply, it asks how we might make life more liveable for ourselves, for each other, and crucially, for strangers we will never meet.
Table of Contents
Introduction – Visions of Madness : Anna Harpin, University of Warwick, UK
Eras
Chapter 1.The DSM and Big Pharma: Bob Whitaker, Mad in America-Independent Scholar, USA
Chapter 2.Asylum, Hospital, Stage: Akihito Suzuki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chapter 3.Race and Madness: TBC
Chapter 4.Psychiatric Treatments: Angela Brintlinger, University of Ohio, USA
Environments
Chapter 5.Ecofeminist Madness: Leah Sidi, UCL, UK
Chapter 6.Colonial Madness: Bénédicte Ledent, University of Liège, Belgium and Eveyln O'Callaghan, University of West Indies
Chapter 7.Patient Grafitti: Linnea Kuglitch, University of Manchester, UK
Chapter 8.Toxic Madness: Tatiana Konrad, University of Vienna, Austria
Experts
Chapter 9.Bodies of Trauma: Caroline Brown, University of Montreal, Canada
Chapter 10.Organisational Madness: Patrick Ffrench and Sinan John-Richards, KCL, UK
Chapter 11.TBC: Kim Noble (Independent artist)
Chapter 12.Hangxiety: Katie Salmon, University of Newcastle, UK
Events
Chapter 13.Suicidality and Gaming, Jon Venn University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter 14.Self-harm and Self-care, Freya Verlander, University of Warwick, UK
Chapter 15.Forensic Psychiatry and Acts of Violence: TBC
Chapter 16.Recovery: TBC
Experiences
Chapter 17.Post-partum Psychosis: Angela Woods, University of Durham, UK
Chapter 18.A Picture of Loneliness: Anna Harpin, University of Warwick, UK
Chapter 19.Grief and Loss: Anne Whitehead, University of Newcastle, UK
Chapter 20.Mania: WJT Mitchell, Chicago, USA
Energies
Chapter 21.Oceanic Madness: Kélina Gotman, KCL, UK
Chapter 22.Creativity and Wellness: Karin Jevert, Independent Scholar and artist
Chapter 23.Indigenous Healing: Arya Thampuran, University of Durham, UK
Chapter 24.Anxiety: Jamie Rakoczi, University of Durham, UK
