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Interview: Eghigian on the History of Madness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As mentioned in an earlier post, Greg Eghigian has just published From Madness to Mental Health:  Psychiatric Disorder and its Treatment in Western Civilization (Rutgers University Press).
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Folie et trauma dans Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l’Éthiopie : une esthétique de l’indicible

open access: yesItinéraires, 2019
In stable governments, different public institutions are responsible for containing madness on the margins of society. In the light of normative concepts, madness would be the opposite of reason. However, when the State itself is the source of psychosis,
Aurélia Mouzet
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From Madness to Mental Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Available beginning February 15, this anthology of primary sources chronicles the history of madness and psychiatry in western civilization, from ancient Israel to contemporary randomized clinical trials.
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Mad or mad-mad: conveying subtle emotion with face emoji

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Introduction: To compensate for the lack of pragmatic information available when communicating via text message, texters make frequent use of texting-specific cues, or textisms, to convey meaning that would otherwise be apparent in spoken conversation. Here, we explore how one such cue, face emoji, can impact the interpretation of text messages.Methods:
Sri Siddhi N. Upadhyay   +2 more
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Bedlam in mind: seeing and reading historical images of madness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I explore mythical Bedlam of popular imaginings. London's Bethlem Hospital was for centuries a unique institution caring for the insane and its alter ego 'Bedlam' influenced popular stereotypes of insanity. For instance, while the type
Cross, S
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CFP - International Health Humanities Conference 2010 “Madness and Literature” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010 “Madness and Literature” The Institute of Mental Health is hosting The 1st International Health Humanities Conference at The University of Nottingham, UK from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th AUGUST 2010.
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Into the Deep End: From Madness-as-Strategy to Madness-as-Right

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy
A central notion in Mad Pride activism is that “madness is a natural reaction” (Curtis et al. 2000, 22). In Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), Justin Garson provides a compelling exploration and defence of this idea through the book’s central ...
Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo
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Strategy, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Allure of Madness

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Justin Garson introduces the distinction between two views on Madness we encounter again and again throughout history: Madness as dysfunction, and Madness as strategy.
Sofia Jeppsson, Paul Lodge
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A Mad King in a Mad World: The Death of Cambyses in Herodotus

open access: yesHistos, 2018
This paper advances a theological interpretation of the madness, downfall, and death of the Herodotean Cambyses, understood as divine retribution for the king’s slaying of Apis, the supreme violation of Egyptian nomoi.
Brian D. Mcphee
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