| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: History and Happiness -- Chapter 1: The Unhappiness Industry -- 1.1 Introduction: Why the Transrational? -- 1.2 Freedom and Control -- 1.3 Conclusions: Language and Medication -- Chapter 2: Media and Culture -- 2.1 Introduction: Film and Television -- 2.2 Theatre and Healing -- 2.3 Evil and Mental Health -- 2.3.1 PTSD -- 2.3.2 Depression -- 2.4 Conclusions: Theology -- Part II: Identity and Theory -- Chapter 3: Gender, Sexuality, Celebrity -- 3.1 Introduction: Gendered Culture -- 3.2 Historical Nexus |
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3.3 Narration, Politics, Sanity -- 3.4 Sexuality and Adolescence -- 3.5 Conclusions: Feminism and Celebrity -- Chapter 4: Race -- 4.1 Introduction: Colonial Psychiatry -- 4.2 Social Theory -- 4.3 Conclusions: History and Haunting -- Part III: Politics and Economics -- Chapter 5: Reality and Narration -- 5.1 Introduction: Lived Experience -- 5.2 Interviews -- 5.2.1 Example One -- 5.2.2 Example Two -- 5.2.3 Example Three -- 5.3 Conclusions: Psychic Reality -- Chapter 6: Creative Voices -- 6.1 Introduction: Voices and The Other -- 6.2 Conclusions: Outside Conformity |
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Chapter 7: Cults, Leaders, Groups -- 7.1 Introduction: Cults -- 7.2 Celebrity Culture and Group Psychosis -- 7.3 Conclusions: Witches Old and New -- Part IV: Philosophy and Law -- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Transrational Hope -- 8.1 The Grand Transgressor -- 8.2 The Monstrous and The Law -- 8.3 Conclusions: No Time for Time -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book is a unique study of the historical, theoretical, and cultural interpretations of madness including interviews with those who have experiences of madness. It takes a transdisciplinary approach, employing historical, psychological, and sociological perspectives through an intersectional lens. This work explains how the prioritization of thinking over feeling in Western thought means the transrational imagination has frequently been negated in tackling mental health with detrimental results. This book, therefore, examines creative media, especially film, as a transrational form of human expression for healing and wellbeing, along with television, theatre, social media, music, and computer games. Madness with regards to gender, sexuality, adolescence, and class in media and film is interrogated, as well as madness and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry. It analyses group psychosis, including celebrity culture, and the madness of leaders and gurus. This book challenges the lasting influence of the Age of Reason by furthering our understanding of the value of transrationality and the diverse ways of being human |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 21, 2023) |
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Mental health -- History
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Mental health -- Social aspects
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Mental illness -- History
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Mental illness -- Social aspects
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Well-being -- History
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Well-being -- Social aspects
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Mental health.
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Mental health -- Social aspects.
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Mental illness.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Well-being.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031375309 |
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3031375300 |
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