Muses, Mystics, Madness: The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness

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Muses, Mystics, Madness: The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness is written by Anna Klambauer and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 184888432X (ISBN 10) and 9781848884328 (ISBN 13).

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Madness – a word of many different meanings, a condition with the potential to destroy, harm, liberate, and inspire in equal measures. This volume explores madness from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It emphasises the need for improved psychological treatment as well as the necessity to enter a dialogue with madness. Apart from the potentially devastating impact mental illness might have on the patient, the positive side of madness is also explored. What if madness is a muse that inspires the artist to create a masterpiece? What if madness is a mystic who connects us to a greater, transcendental truth? What if madness is a mantle the frees us to speak our minds in a hostile environment that threatens to punish us for our deviant thoughts? It is this balancing act between creative and illuminating madness on the one, and destructive and harmful insanity on the other hand that this volume explores.