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A Question Of Madness

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Author : Zhores A. Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

A Question Of Madness written by Zhores A. Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Social Science categories.

Tsar Paul And The Question Of Madness

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Author : Hugh Ragsdale
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-11-11

Tsar Paul And The Question Of Madness written by Hugh Ragsdale and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Drawing on archival studies, revisionist historians have taken issue with the traditional view that Tsar Paul I was mad and was assassinated because of the clear danger he posed to the state. Professor Ragsdale contends that the question of Paul's mental condition is not as simple as either his detractors or modern apologists suppose. In the first full-length study to be published outside Russia, the author places the subject in a wholly new perspective and offers some trenchant criticisms of traditional psychohistorical methods. He first describes the development of the personality of the Grand Prince in light of the conflicts between the European Enlightenment values that influenced his formal education and the social and political realities of eighteenth-century Russia. Professor Ragsdale next examines Paul's reign and the events surrounding his assassination, particularly the evidence suggesting that the conspirators planned beforehand to defame the Tsar's reputation as a means of justifying the deed. The next two chapters compare Paul's thinking and policies with those of other absolute sovereigns of the time and look at how mental illness was defined and treated in other instances of royal madness. The final chapter explores the question of the Tsar's mental condition in terms of twentieth-century psychological and psychiatric theory. A significant scholarly contribution, this book sheds light on an old controversy and provides some valuable new insights on the uses of psychology and psychiatry in the study of history.

The Book Of Madness And Cures

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Author : Regina O'Melveny
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-04-10

The Book Of Madness And Cures written by Regina O'Melveny and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Fiction categories.

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases. After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work. Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.

The Madness Of Crowds

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Author : Louise Penny
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2021-08-24

The Madness Of Crowds written by Louise Penny and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Fiction categories.

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller AARP The Magazine – Recommended Summer Reading CNN – A Most Anticipated Book of August Bustle – A Most Anticipated Book of August Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university. While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture. They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart. Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold. Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone. When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion. And the madness of crowds.

The Comforts Of Madness

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Author : Paul Sayer
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Books
Release Date : 1991-01-01

The Comforts Of Madness written by Paul Sayer and has been published by Anchor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with categories.

Inhabiting the twilight world of the catatonic, Peter--as revealed through interior monologues--prefers not to participate in life, although his intelligence and sensitivity are clearly demonstrated in his honest and unself-pitying attitude

Another Name For Madness

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Author : Marion Roach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-11

Another Name For Madness written by Marion Roach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Schizo The Liberatory Potential Of Madness

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Author : Irina Lyubchenko
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-22

Schizo The Liberatory Potential Of Madness written by Irina Lyubchenko and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-22 with Social Science categories.

‘Schizo’: The Liberatory Potential of Madness presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential of madness as a force for liberation from societies of control.

What Is Madness

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Author : Darian Leader
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-10-06

What Is Madness written by Darian Leader and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Psychology categories.

What is Madness? is Darian Leader's probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in between What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like the apparently 'normal' Harold Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models. What is Madness? explores the idea of quiet madness - that at times many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must seek a new way to assess, treat and deal with those suffering mental health problems. What is Madness? is Darian Leader's radically insightful and masterfully convincing exploration of a painful, complex but endlessly fascinating area of humanity. 'A terrific intellectual stylist' Joseph O' Neill, Guardian 'Engrossing and enlightening . . . Leader is as much a philosopher as a psychoanalyst' Metro 'The mad . . . have been segregated and often confined; for fear, perhaps, that they will contaminate the rest of us. But as Darian Leader brilliantly shows, things are never so simple' Hanif Kureshi, Independent 'Provides valuable insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered psychosis to rebuild their lives' Sunday Times 'Witty, probing. A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness' Independent 'Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we regard madness' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating. A formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely book' New Statesman 'Superb insights, brilliant' Observer 'One of our most important contemporary thinkers' Guardian Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of The New Black, Strictly Bipolar, Why do women write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.

The Question Of Madness In The Works Of E T A Hoffmann And Mary Shelley

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Author : Karin Preuss
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2003

The Question Of Madness In The Works Of E T A Hoffmann And Mary Shelley written by Karin Preuss and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann's novella Der Sandmann was published in the first of the two volumes of his Nachtstucke. A major theme for Mary Shelley and E.T.A. Hoffmann and a hitherto neglected aspect of academic research is the question of madness, in Frankenstein and Der Sandmann. Both texts represent certain features shared by the Romantic movements in Germany and England, such as an ironic stance towards Romanticism itself, its Prometheanism, or its indulgence in the occult. At the same time both authors criticise the Enlightenment project more than they do celebrate the idea of progress. The first two chapters of this study stress the contrastive approaches of Hoffmann and Mary Shelley in their explorations of madness. The rest of this analysis emphasises the similarities of mythological, cultural and linguistic contexts within which Mary Shelley and Hoffmann settle their pre-occupation with madness. This study aims at finding out whether insanity is an illness of the isolated individual, or whether society is sick itself. Is insanity related to the body or the mind? Is it an image for the crisis of representation in postrevolutionary Romanticism?

Hotel Of Madness

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Author : William Tchatchou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-21

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A Necromancer. A careless Wizard. The Book of the Dead. All Arthur wanted was a vacation. But when the Necronomicon he crafted to make a little dough falls into the wrong hands, Arthur finds himself having to save the world - again. As zombies assault the Hotel Gaylord in Washington D.C., Arthur and a ragtag group of survivors face ancient evils and Old Gods in an attempt to salvage earth from the onslaught of the zombie horde? and worse. Can Arthur and newly minted Hero Susan save the day? Or is Washington slated to become the next Lost City of Atlantis?