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What's normal? : narratives of mental & emotional disorders /

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Series: Literature and medicine (Kent, Ohio) ; 3.Publication details: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2000].Description: xv, 355 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

0873386531
9780873386531

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LOC classification:

PN6071.M4 W49 2000

Contents:

pt. 1. Clinical and Bioethical Perspectives -- "The Meaning of Normal" / Phillip V. Davis and John G. Bradley -- From Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt against the Mental Health System / Seth Farber -- From The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History / Stephen Jay Gould -- From Rewriting the Soul / Ian Hacking -- From "On Being Sane in Insane Places" / D.L. Rosenhan -- From Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom -- Three Stories from Cases in Bioethics -- pt. 2. Narrative Perspectives -- "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" / Conrad Aiken -- "The End of the Party" / Graham Greene -- From Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen -- From Equus / Peter Shaffer -- "Two Stick Drawings" / Seamus Heaney -- From Joe Egg / Peter Nichols -- "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" / Flannery O'Connor -- From Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck -- "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" / Anne Tyler -- "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" / Eudora Welty -- Three Poems / Emily Dickinson -- From Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel -- From Faces in the Water / Janet Frame -- "The Yellow Wallpaper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" / Joy Harjo -- "The Avalanche" / Linda Hogan -- "No Name Woman," from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Three Poems / Anne Sexton -- "1919," from Sula / Toni Morrison -- "Night March" / Tim O'Brien -- "Mental Cases" / Wilfred Owen -- From Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- "Panic" / Philip Booth -- "King of the Bingo Game" / Ralph Ellison -- "Cash," from As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner -- "Gogol's Wife" / Tommaso Landolfi -- "The Tell-Tale Heart" / Edgar Allan Poe -- From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke -- "To You My Mother Lost in Time" / Hale Chatfield -- From My Journey into Alzheimer's Disease / Robert Davis -- From In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey / Joyce Dyer -- Two Poems / Eugene Hirsch -- "A Wonderland Party" / Jean Wood.

Summary: This work examines the issues of "abnormalities" in mental health, intelligence, and sexual behavior. The first section presents a wide ranging collection of essays and articles written by renowned clinicians who address clinical, ethical, and social issues related to mental illness and disorders. The second section uses fiction, poetry, and drama to portray mental and behavioral abnormalities, sometimes from "inside" the perspective of the deviant and sometimes from the experiences of family, friends, and other engaged observers. Excerpts that examine the treatment of mental health, intelligence, and sexual conduct are cited from such literary works as Equus, Of Mice and Men, Like Water for Chocolate, and Sula.

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Title notes ( 4 )

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy	Arts Therapy	PN 6071 WHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0005628

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work examines the issues of "abnormalities" in mental health, intelligence, and sexual behavior. The first section presents a wide ranging collection of essays and articles written by renowned clinicians who address clinical, ethical, and social issues related to mental illness and disorders. The second section uses fiction, poetry, and drama to portray mental and behavioral abnormalities, sometimes from "inside" the perspective of the deviant and sometimes from the experiences of family, friends, and other engaged observers. Excerpts that examine the treatment of mental health, intelligence, and sexual conduct are cited from such literary works as Equus, Of Mice and Men, Like Water for Chocolate, and Sula.