Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors - Tapa blanda

Claridge, Gordon; Pryor, Ruth; Watkins, Gwen

 
9781883536152: Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1883536154 ISBN 13: 9781883536152
Editorial: Malor Books, 2017

Sinopsis

This groundbreaking work is a unique collaboration between an Oxford University psychologist and two literary critics. It explores the lives and works of 10 authors – among them Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath – who embody both serious mental illness and great originality of thought. The book draws upon personal diaries, historical archives, clinical records and literary productions, and examines modes of thinking – such as divergent thought, over-inclusiveness and autism – that psychosis and creativity might have in common. Using genetics, experimental abnormal and clinical psychology, personality research, descriptive psychiatry and literary analysis, Claridge, Pryor and Watkins present the revolutionary idea that normality and psychosis are continuous with each other. Healthy varieties and styles of thought and perception substantially overlap with the inclination toward psychotic breakdown and, indeed, might at times be identical. Psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, therapists and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between madness and creativity from this book.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Gordon Claridge is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology. He was previously Reader in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glascow. His publications include Origins of Mental Illness (also published by Malor Books).

Ruth Pryor has held teaching and research posts at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Washington, Seattle; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; and the University of Wales. She is the editor of Letters to Vernon Watkins and The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins.

Gwen Watkins taught at the University of Washington and the Extra-Mural Department of the University College of Swansea. Her publications include Portrait of a Friend (about Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins) and Dickens in Search of Himself.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Malor Books
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1883536154
ISBN 13 
9781883536152
Encuadernación
Copertina flessibile
Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
274
Contacto del fabricante
Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author
https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us

c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy
Luxembourg
L-1855
Luxemburgo

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780333475874: Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0333475879 ISBN 13:  9780333475874
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990
Tapa dura