madness – A New Vision for Mental Health

Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

Author: Editorial 9th November 2023 0 Comments

This article by Justin Garson has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “What is madness? Is it merely a colloquial term for ‘mental illness,’ one that is alternatively reviled and reclaimed? Is it merely the lack of reason? Or…
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Arthur Wigan, idiocy, Immanuel Kant, insanity, John Locke, Jonah Bossewitch, Justin Garson, Mad in America, madness, Sofia Jeppsson, Wouter Kusters

A Peek Inside the Modern Asylum

Author: Editorial 2nd October 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Ekaterina Netchitailova has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “The psychiatric hospital of today might appear as a foreign, scary object to the mind who has never visited the institution. It represents the unknown, the…
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academic psychiatry, asylums, Culture & Society, Ekaterina Netchitailova, Mad in America, madness

The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

Author: Editorial 17th April 2023 0 Comments

This article by Robert Murphy has been re-published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Psychiatry has failed to provide a definitive explanatory framework for mental illnesses, despite more than a hundred years of scientific and medical research. Its failure results…
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biomedical model, diagnostic labelling, empathic listening, empathy, Mad in the UK, madness, meaning-making, psychiatry, Robert Murphy

The Future Is Political and Transdisciplinary

Author: Editorial 3rd April 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology – the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP). It describes the journal’s aims and general content, and sets out the…
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Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Awais Aftab, lived experiences, madness, philosophy, philosophy of mental health, philosophy of psychiatry, Project MUSE, psychiatry, psychology

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies

Author: Editorial 6th March 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Richard Saville-Smith. The publishers say: “This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical…
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anthropology, book, books, dissociation, DSM, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, religious studies, Richard Saville-Smith, schizophrenia

Madness: A Philosophical Exploration

Author: Editorial 14th October 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Justin Garson. The publishers say: “Reframes philosophical debates about the nature of mental disorderOffers an innovative reading of the history of madnessDevelops alternative paradigm for thinking about what it means to be mad” “Since the…
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books, Culture & Society, history of madness, Justin Garson, madness, philosophy

On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind

Author: Editorial 10th October 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Richard G.T. Gipps. The publishers say: “Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion? Psychopathological theorists often try to find a way to characterise this subject’s inner predicament so that their opaque utterances and actions will…
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books, delusions, madness, philosophy, psychiatry, psychopathology, psychosis, rationality, Richard Gipps

Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

Author: Editorial 4th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us:…
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Andrew Scull, Culture & Society, history, history of psychiatry, insanity, madness

The Distinction Between Antisociality And Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 23rd September 2021 0 Comments

The suggested approach implied in the article below would, within the context of mainstream psychiatry, increase the already huge number (categories) of supposed mental illnesses (and increase the already vast number of psychiatric diagnoses) … which would not be a good…
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Abigail Marsh, antisocial behaviour, Antisocial Personality Disorder, badness, cognitive bias, Conduct Disorder, cultural bias, Culture & Society, Edge, madness, self-harm, USA

Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters on his new book

Author: Editorial 18th August 2021 0 Comments

Wouter Kusters is a Dutch philosopher and linguist from the Netherlands. He is best known for his books, ‘Pure Madness, A Quest for the Psychotic Experience’ and ‘A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking.’ The latter was translated into…
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books, James Barnes, Mad in the UK, madness, philosophy, psychosis, spirituality, transliminal, Wouter Kusters