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Medical Heritage Library

Degeneration / by Max Nordau.

Collection Les Hétéroclites

599 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 folded sheet.

Le texte à l'épreuve de la folie et de la litterature / Marc Décimo, Tanka G. Tremblay.

Madness and creativity in literature and culture / edited by Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton.

x, 238 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

The Hive, or, Mental gatherings.

Histoire littéraire des fous / par Octave Delepierre.

Early English books online

Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem / by the Doctors patient extraordinary.

<p>"Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity. This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of writers who have lived, worked and created with a mental illness. Mad Muse examines and unpicks this fascinating relationship, demonstrating that mental illness is often intergenerational while the story of mental illness is intertextual. The study begins with William Styron's iconic memoir Darkness Visible, moving through a succession of mental illness memoirs from some of the most important authors in the genre, including Kate Millett, Kay Redfield Jamison, Linda Sexton, Lauren Slater, Andrew Solomon and Elyn Saks. From memoirs that blur the boundaries between historical truth and narrative truth to a first-person account of schizophrenia, Berman discusses the challenges of reading books which inspire hope and courage in many readers but may also sometimes have unintended consequences. In so doing, it illuminates the complex, co-existing relationship between the arts and mental health and represents an invaluable contribution to the study of health humanities."</p>

Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / by Jeffrey Berman.

Histoire littéraire des fous / Par Octave Delepierre.

Philemon series

xii, 207 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Degeneration / by Max Nordau.

Le texte à l'épreuve de la folie et de la litterature / Marc Décimo, Tanka G. Tremblay.

Madness and creativity in literature and culture / edited by Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton.

The Hive, or, Mental gatherings.

Histoire littéraire des fous / par Octave Delepierre.

The Hive, or, Mental gatherings.

Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem / by the Doctors patient extraordinary.

Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / by Jeffrey Berman.

Histoire littéraire des fous / Par Octave Delepierre.

On psychological and visionary art : notes from C. G. Jung's lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia" / C. G. Jung ; Craig E. Stephenson, editor.

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Degeneration / by Max Nordau.

Le texte à l'épreuve de la folie et de la litterature / Marc Décimo, Tanka G. Tremblay.

Madness and creativity in literature and culture / edited by Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton.

The Hive, or, Mental gatherings.

Histoire littéraire des fous / par Octave Delepierre.

The Hive, or, Mental gatherings.

Lucida intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems, written at Finsbury and Bethlem / by the Doctors patient extraordinary.

Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / by Jeffrey Berman.

Histoire littéraire des fous / Par Octave Delepierre.

On psychological and visionary art : notes from C. G. Jung's lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia" / C. G. Jung ; Craig E. Stephenson, editor.

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