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Borderline experience: madness, mimicry and Scottish gothic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This essay draws on Julia Kristeva's concept of 'borderline' experience, a feature of psychotic discourse, to examine the representation of madness, split personality and sociopathic behaviour in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a ...
Brewster, S
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Cine y locura: momentos de una atracción. Movies and Madness: Moments of an attraction.

open access: yesPsicoespacios, 2010
  Movies and Madness: Moments of an attraction. Resumen. Un artículo que reflexiona sobre los encuentros y desencuentros del cine y la psicopatología. Critica las exageraciones y tergiversaciones de la locura en afán del consumismo cinematográfico y
Sonia Natalia Cogollo
doaj   +1 more source

Re-Coopering anti-psychiatry: David Cooper, revolutionary critic of psychiatry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article offers an introduction to David Cooper (1931–86), who coined the term ‘anti-psychiatry’, and, it is argued here, has not so far received the scholarly attention that he deserves. The first section presents his life in context.
Chapman, Adrian
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Prognosis End-Time: Madness and Prophecy in Melancholia and Take Shelter

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2013
This paper discusses two films released in 2011, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Jeff Nichols Take Shelter in the context of the history of dominant conceptions of madness as laid out in Foucault's History of Madness. I argue that these films allegorise
Briohny Doyle
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“Stark Raving Sane”: A Deconstructionist Reading of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

open access: yesAnafora, 2021
The focus of this study is the theme of Hamlet’s madness in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which as a play based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, provides a critique on this theme through the perspective of Ros and Guil, who, by means of a
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia, Fatemeh Raeisi
doaj   +1 more source

A synthetic benzoxazine dimer derivative targets c‐Myc to inhibit colorectal cancer progression

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Benzoxazine dimer derivatives bind to the bHLH‐LZ region of c‐Myc, disrupting c‐Myc/MAX complexes, which are evaluated from SAR analysis. This increases ubiquitination and reduces cellular c‐Myc. Impairing DNA repair mechanisms is shown through proteomic analysis.
Nicharat Sriratanasak   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF “MADNESS” MICROFIELD IN MODERN ENGLISH

open access: yesVestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie, 2015
The integrated structural and semantic description of phraseological units is of great interest in modern linguistics. This article represents some results of structural and semantic analysis of phraseological units which reflect the notion of madness in
Yabzhanova Lyudmila Badmaevna
doaj   +1 more source

Schizophrenia, social practices and cultural values: A conceptual introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Schizophrenia is usually described as a fragmentation of subjective experience and the impossibility to engage in meaningful cultural and intersubjective practices. Although the term schizophrenia is less than 100 years old, madness is generally believed
Gonçalves, J.   +2 more
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Crucial parameters for precise copy number variation detection in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded solid cancer samples

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study shows that copy number variations (CNVs) can be reliably detected in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) solid cancer samples using ultra‐low‐pass whole‐genome sequencing, provided that key (pre)‐analytical parameters are optimized.
Hanne Goris   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Madness:

open access: yesCrossings, 2015
To deconstruct the cultural perversion of the African-American ethnicity, Toni Morrison deploys “madness” as grand metaphor in The Bluest Eye. The “mad-self” metaphorically liberates the hidden oppressed self to be expressed which can be explained as a ...
Ms. Sharifa Akter
doaj   +1 more source

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