Madness and Literature (EPUB) von Lasse R. Gammelgaard

This book engages with literature’s 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.

Introduction: Madness and Literature and the Health Humanities Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard

Part I: Literary History and Socio-Political Perspectives
1 Layla and Majnun in Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Madness in Islamic Psychology Alan Weber
2 The Anti-Psychiatry Ethos in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy Shoshana Benjamin
3 Apartheid’s Garden: Dismantling Madness in J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Sebastian C. Galbo
4 Sniffs and Dribblers: Poppy Shakespeare and the Identities of Madness Clare Allan

Part II: Literary Theory and Experiencing Mental Illness
5 Reading Shattering Minds and Extended Selves in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Anna Ovaska
6 Spill the Words: Speechlessness and Creativity in the Writing of Janet Frame Mary Elene Wood
7 Pronominal Shifts and the Confusion of Self with Not-Self Alice Hervé
8 Rethinking Clinical and Critical Perspectives on Psychosis in Kathy Acker’s Writing Charley Baker
9 Countering the DSM in Poetry about Bipolar Disorder Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard
10 Seeing Feeling: Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Memory in the Graphic Novel Perfect Hair Penni Russon

Part III: Literary Instrumentality and Clinical Psychopathology
11 Writing Therapy, Writing Data: Therapeutic Writing as a Methodological and Ethical Approach in Researching Digital Sexual Assault Signe Uldbjerg
12 A Question of Context: Sites for Cultural Negotiation in Narratives of Manic Depression Megan Milota
13 Conscripting Dante: History, Anachronism, and the Uses of Literary Precedents in the ‘New’ Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder David Orr
14 Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives Heike Bartel

Afterword Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard
Notes
Index