Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness

Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and...
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Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness

$351.45
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness

$351.45
Author: Lasse R. Gammelgaard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in turn been interested in and influenced by literature. Pioneers within philosophy, psychiatry and literature share the endeavour to explore and explain the human mind and behaviour, including what a society deems as being outside perceived normality.


Using a theoretical approach that is eclectic and transdisciplinary, this volume engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of mental ill health. The cases and the theory are in dialogue with a clinical approach, addressing issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder, PTSD and digital sexual assault.


The chapters in Part I address literary representations of madness with a historical awareness, outlining the socio-political potentials of madness literature. Part II investigates how representations of mental illness in literature can offer unique insights into the subjective experience of alternative states of mind. Part III reflects on how literary cases can be applied to help inform mental health education, how they can be used therapeutically and how they are giving credence to new diagnoses. Throughout the book, the contributors consider how the language and discourses of literature-both stylistically and theoretically-can teach us something new about what it means to be mentally unwell.



Author: Lasse R. Gammelgaard
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781905816378

About the Author
Lasse R. Gammelgaard is assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. He obtained his PhD at Aarhus University in 2013 with a dissertation on narrative and poetry. He is co-director of the research group Health, Media and Narrative at Aarhus University. He is author of the high school textbook Galskab i litteraturen [Madness in Literature]. His articles appear in Narrative, Style, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui and Journal of Research in Sickness and Society among others.


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