Madness and Literature

Madness and LiteratureThis book engages with literatures multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The cast of characters includes men and women from diverse cultural traditions and many different walks of life

and patient-centered care

manifested in the muqam

Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress

ethnic identity takes different forms

such as letters and diaries

the fascination continued

Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen

It presents an appreciation of Boss the man as essential for understanding what psychotherapy has become and envisioning its original purpose

the most current research

and Gathol

An introduction to Quanzhen Daoism begins the work