Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections

Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Gonzalo Araoz , Fátima Alves and Katrina Jaworski -- Rewriting the Asylum /Diane Carpenter -- The Disordered Self: Philosophy, Memoir and Madness /Marlene Benjamin -- From Lay Concepts to Therapeutic Itineraries: Sociological Study about Mental Suffering and Mental Illness /Fátima Alves -- Claiming Madness to Explain Deviance: Young Afghani Asylum Seekers in Distress /Eleni Bolieraki -- Self-Fulfillment or Self-Erosion? Depression as Key Pathology of Late Modernity /Bert van den Bergh -- Reframing the 'Mad' Intentions of Those Who Suicide /Katrina Jaworski -- Madness and Psychotherapy through the Looking Glass: Scheherazade's Talking Cure /Alexandra Cheira -- William Blake and The Road to Hell: Demystifying the Cultural Iconoclasm of the Hells Angels /Jennifer Hedgecock -- Order and Disorder: Rational Acumen and Emotional Incompetence in the Television Detective Story /E. Deidre Pribram -- Radio Nikosia: Mutiny on the Ship of Fools /Martín Correa-Urquiza.