Culture, Madness and Wellbeing
Beyond the Sociology of Insanity
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Jason Lee
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Health Psychology
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Creative Voices
This chapter examines ‘madness’ and creative practice, including fictional and personal experiences, dissecting ‘madness’ and its relationship with voice, creativity, and the transrational. Philosopher Emmanue...
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The Unhappiness Industry
This chapter examines the histories and theories of ‘madness’, including psychological, historical, and sociological approaches. The importance and meaning of the transrational are explained. Post-institutiona...
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Gender, Sexuality, Celebrity
This chapter evaluates ‘madness’, gender, sexuality, and adolescence, investigating influential female writers and contemporary film. How women have been demonized in literature, film, and celebrity culture is...
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Reality and Narration
Ethnographic interviews with those impacted by ‘madness’ personally and professionally are employed in this chapter. Real-life experiences of ‘madness’ are personal frameworks within mediated and remediated na...
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Cults, Leaders, Groups
This chapter analyses ‘madness’, leaders and gurus explaining how great leaders possess a ‘madness’ so they can function well in a crisis. This counteracts one definition of ‘madness’, that it means the inabil...
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Media and Culture
This chapter assesses the culture of ‘madness’, including film, television, and theatre. We find culture, especially film, can be a transrational mechanism for healing and wellbeing, given the heightened affec...
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Race
This chapter interrogates ‘madness’ and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry, delineating the development of black ‘madness’ and white ‘madness’. Insanity was viewed as a break...
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Conclusions: Transrational Hope
This chapter concludes by furthering an understanding of the creative value of transrationality, and through examining the politics of self and its adaptivity with regards to ‘madness’. Social media, video gam...
