Scenes of Madness - A Psychiatrist at the Theatre (Paperback, Revised)

What can be learnt about madness from plays? This work believes that playgoers can learn as much about madness at the theatre as from textbooks of psychiatry, and that the understanding plays give of madness is all the more vivid because the events are presented dramatically, evoking feelings as well as intellectual curiosity. It discusses the account given by playwrights of the madness afflicting such diverse characters as Orestes, Oedipus, Hamlet, King Lear, Dr Faustus, Peer Gynt, Alving, Ivanov and Blanche Dubois. The madness depicted in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in the person's history and current relationships, and is shown to arise out of the crises in systems of relationships and to recover when there is reconciliation.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1995
First published:	1992
Authors:	Derek Russell Davis
Foreword by:	Sue Jennings
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-13173-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
LSN:	0-415-13173-1
Barcode:	9780415131735

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