Harpin Madness, Art, and Society

Beyond Illness
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-37104-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

How is madness made, experienced, and treated? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing?

Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts:

- ‘Psychiatrists, Institutions, Treatments’, which illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar’s Mary Barnes and Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

- ‘Realities, Bodies, Moods’, which rejects diagnostic categories in favour of a radical openness to the diversity of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko and Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places, and Things.

Reading its case studies as a form of protest literature, Madness, Art, and Society seeks a more nuanced understanding of the plurality of madness in society, and in so doing, offers an outstanding resource for students and scholars alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harpin, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beyond Illness



Part One: Structures: Psychiatrists, Institutions, Treatments

Chapter One: ‘I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question’:

R.D. Laing and the Figure of the Psychiatrist

Chapter Two: ‘I guess that this must be the place’: Sites of Madness

Chapter Three: ‘It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient’: Treating Madness



Part Two: Experiences: Realities, Bodies, Moods



Chapter Four: Imagining Reality: Perceptual Experiences on Stage and Screen

Chapter Five: ‘I watch myself disappear in their eyes, in their tesses, I talk loud but

still I don’t exist’: Women’s Bodies and Psychopathology

Chapter Six: Something and Nothing: Moods of Madness

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, and co-artistic director of the theatre company Idiot Child, with whom she works as a writer and director.