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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

Author: Editorial 11th June 2021 0 Comments

“”Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”Dr. R. D. Laing There are many people no longer with us whose ideas, actions, writings, thoughts (etc) feed into a modern-day new vision for mental health. R. D. Laing is…
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authenticity, books, existentialism, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, R. D. Laing, schizophrenia

‘They saw me as mad and needing to be medicated’ | Modern Masculinity

Author: Editorial 31st May 2021 0 Comments

This 14 minute video comes from The Guardian. The producers say: “In this episode of Modern Masculinity, journalist Iman Amrani speaks to Chris, who after being diagnosed with schizophrenia spent a long time in the mental health system. They discuss medication,…
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A Philosophy of Madness. The Experience of Psychotic Thinking

Author: Editorial 18th December 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written by Wouter Kusters. The publishers say: “A philosopher draws on his own experience of madness as he takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy. In this book, philosopher…
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books, madness, narrative, philosophy, psychosis, videos, Wouter Kusters

Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

Author: Editorial 25th March 2020 0 Comments

The subtitle of this book is “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”. It has been written by psychiatrists Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas. The publishers say: “How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the…
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anthropology, books, ethics, humanities, madness, Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas, philosophy, postmodern, psychiatry, psychosis

Understanding Mental Health: A critical realist exploration

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2019 0 Comments

Written by David Pilgrim (Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool), this book has the following Table of Contents: 1. Psychiatric crises and the crisis of psychiatry 2….
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books, David Pilgrim, egocentricity, madness, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, wellbeing

Madlove: A Designer Asylum

Author: Editorial 14th September 2018 0 Comments

The Madlove website asks: “Is it possible to go mad in a positive way? How would you create a safe place in which to do so? If you designed your own asylum, what would it be like? Madlove is a project…
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Into the Woods and Out Again

Author: Editorial 6th July 2018 0 Comments

Into the Woods and Out Again: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation , by Dina Glouberman (June 2018). The publishers say: “1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr Dina Glouberman, renowned psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the world famous Skyros Holidays, creator of Imagework therapy,…
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aloneness, books, burnout, Dina Glouberman, imagework, imagination, love, madness, marriage, mothering, New Approaches

#Emerging Proud: a grassroots social movement

Author: Editorial 21st June 2018 1 Comment

#Emerging Proud is a grassroots social movement aimed at re-framing ‘madness’ as a catalyst for positive transformation. The people involved with #Emerging Proud say that it’s: “… ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we…
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Madness Made Me: A Memoir

Author: Editorial 11th June 2018 0 Comments

Written by Mary O’Hagan (2014), the publishers say: “After her journey through madness Mary O’Hagan realized the mental health system and society did more harm than good. ‘Madness Made Me’ is a myth-busting account of madness and our customary responses…
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Author: Editorial 26th February 2018 0 Comments

In this book (a 1964 abridged edition of a book published in 1961) Michel Foucault: “… examines the archaeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part…
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