Madness and Literature

Lasse R. Gammelgaard is associate professor at the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is co-director of the research group Health, Media and Narrative. He is author of the high school textbook Galskab i litteraturen [Madness in Literature]. His articles appear in Narrative, Style, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui and Journal of Research in Sickness and Society among others.

• Introduction: Madness and Literature and the Health Humanities Lasse Raaby GammelgaardDOI: 10.47788/AFZH5419Part I: Literary History and Socio-Political Perspectives 1. Layla and Majnun in Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Madness in Islamic Psychology Alan Weber DOI: 10.47788/RRMJ3362 2. The Anti-Psychiatry Ethos in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy Shoshana BenjaminDOI: 10.47788/YEGJ4716 3. Apartheid’s Garden: Dismantling Madness in J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Sebastian C. GalboDOI: 10.47788/TJNQ3925 4. Sniffs and Dribblers: Poppy Shakespeare and the Identities of Madness Clare AllanDOI: 10.47788/SEHO5518Part II: Literary Theory and Experiencing Mental Illness 5. Reading Shattering Minds and Extended Selves in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Anna OvaskaDOI: 10.47788/KVCT9727 6. Spill the Words: Speechlessness and Creativity in the Writing of Janet Frame Mary Elene WoodDOI: 10.47788/ZEIP9285 7. Pronominal Shifts and the Confusion of Self with Not-Self Alice HervéDOI: 10.47788/KQGN8180 8. Rethinking Clinical and Critical Perspectives on Psychosis in Kathy Acker’s Writing Charley BakerDOI: 10.47788/KIQF3977 9. Countering the DSM in Poetry about Bipolar Disorder Lasse Raaby GammelgaardDOI: 10.47788/GRFK1241 10. Seeing Feeling: Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Memory in the Graphic Novel Perfect Hair Penni RussonDOI: 10.47788/WKFD8677Part III: Literary Instrumentality and Clinical Psychopathology 11. Writing Therapy, Writing Data: Therapeutic Writing as a Methodological and Ethical Approach in Researching Digital Sexual Assault Signe UldbjergDOI: 10.47788/SWBN2997 12. A Question of Context: Sites for Cultural Negotiation in Narratives of Manic Depression Megan MilotaDOI: 10.47788/LTVE5090 13. Conscripting Dante: History, Anachronism, and the Uses of Literary Precedents in the ‘New’ Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder David OrrDOI: 10.47788/QYGF1330 14. Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives Heike BartelDOI: 10.47788/FCMM5517Afterword Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard DOI: 10.47788/IXUD7033Notes Index

What a wonderful goal, to put literature and psychopathology in dialogue, and I can testify as a psychopathologist, to the extraordinary and enriching achievement of that goal. I have prospered from my engagement with the many complex and enlightening ideas in this book. I cannot recommend this book enough.