Troubled Mind

Stories of uncertainty and hope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

'I am not ill... the doctors stole my organs for black magic... I am responsible for the fall of mankind... I am under attack from the outside world... the voices tell me to throttle her... she comes to fetch my heart... she comes to fetch my breathing... I am too afraid...'In 'The Troubled Mind', Sean Baumann seeks to address the fear and misapprehension surrounding mental illnesses. Through his personal engagement with patients, he describes the experiences of those living with schizophrenia, bipolar mood disorders and other severe forms of psychiatric disorders.The stories told are authentic, compelling and mysterious, representing vivid expressions of minds in turmoil and the struggle to give shape and meaning to mental distress. The author describes these encounters respectfully, believing that careless representations of mental illness cause further suffering and exclusion. Neuroscientific, socio-cultural, historical, philosophical contexts, and perspectives from the arts are used to shed light on the varied and enigmatic phenomena of mental illness. An argument is made that many of the issues described in these encounters reach beyond the possibly arbitrary confines of mental illness, and raise questions that affect us all, including concerns about the self, free will, and consciousness, and the meanings we attach to being who we are. 'The Troubled Mind' is illustrated by award-winning artist Fiona Moodie.'Blends the personal and the scientific in a seamless and empathetic narrative... thought-provoking and authoritative... a tremendous achievement'. Nicholas Shakespeare.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-24
Mått:153 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt:592 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:The Conrad Press
ISBN:9781916966291

Utforska kategorier

Psykiatri inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Dr. Sean Baumann worked for twenty-five years as a consultant to the male admission unit of a public psychiatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, where he currently holds an honorary position. He is the editor of 'Primary Care Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Southern Africa'. His cantata: 'Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair' opened the World Psychiatric Conference in Cape Town.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Introduction i Prologue: The hospital on the other side of the river iv 1 The notion of madness 1 2 The need for the other 9 3 The frontier: a historical context 17 4 Living with uncertainty 25 5 Being a doctor 34 6 The boundaries of mental illness and the problems of living 43 7 The confounding limits of science 50 8 The biology of madness 58 9 Medication and madness 66 10 Traditional healers, Freud Jung and other interpreters 75 11 Coercion 83 12 Violence 91 13 Unreason 100 14 Wonder 106 15 Shame 115 16 The dream of the community 122 17 The status of disability and its complications 130 18 Pain and suffering 137 19 It's all in the mind 147 20 At least it is not going to kill you 155 21 The cliche of the madness of the world 162 22 Madness is not a metaphor 169 23 The romance of madness 174 24 Madness and the theatre 180 25 Art and madness 189 26 Madness and machines 198 27 Psychopathy and psychosis 207 28 Fear 215 29 Anxiety, psychiatry in disarray and a celebrity circus 223 30 The problem with depression 233 31 The illusory thrill of mania 241 32 The allure of intoxication 247 33 Madness as a disorder of consciousness 255 34 Madness as a disorder of self 263 35 Bring back my son 272 36 I can't go on like this 280 37 Odd ideas, and very occasionally a strange beauty 287 38 Hearing voices, or listening 295 39 A family aghast 303 40 Suicide and its aftermath 309 41 HIV and madness 317 42 Huntington's disease, syphilis and other tragedies of the damaged brain 324 43 Why become a psychiatrist 332 44 Meaning and madness 339 Epilogue 345Acknowledgements 350