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Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness - Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (Paperback)
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Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness - Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (Paperback)
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This collection offers a diverse range of perspectives that seek to
find meaning in madness. Mainstream biomedical approaches tend to
interpret experiences commonly labelled "psychotic" as being
indicative of a biological illness that can best be ameliorated
with prescription drugs. In seeking to counter this perspective,
psychosocial outlooks commonly focus on the role of trauma and
environmental stress. Although an appreciation for the role of
trauma has been critical in expanding the ways in which we view
madness, an emphasis of this kind may nevertheless continue to
perpetuate a subtle form of reductivism-madness continues to be
understood as the product of a deficit. In seeking to move beyond
causal-reductivism, this book explores a variety of perspectives on
the question of finding inherent meaning in madness and extreme
states. Contributors to this book are distinguished writers and
researchers from a variety of international and interdisciplinary
perspectives. Topics span the fields of depth psychology and
psychoanalysis, creativity, Indigenous and postcolonial approaches,
neurodiversity, mad studies, and mysticism and spirituality. This
collection will be of interest to mental health professionals,
students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences, and
people with lived experience of madness and extreme states. Readers
will come away with an appreciation of the more generative aspects
of madness, and a recognition that these experiences may be
important for both personal and collective healing.
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