Madness and Literature What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness |
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| Editor:
| Gammelgaard, Lasse R. |
| Series title: | Language, Discourse and Mental Health Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-905816-39-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2022 |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $98.00USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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This book engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.
This book engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.