Former NRL player, world boxing title holder and proud Wiradjuri First Nations man Joe Williams was always plagued by negative dialogue in his head, and the pressures of elite sport took their toll. Joe eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to silence the dialogue, before attem…
'Houses of Madness' is a history of asylums of colonial Bengal in the 19th century. It explores these institutions through several phases that not only involved changes in medical treatment and its interpretation, but also the question of spatial distribution within these instit…
As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a "connoisseur of insa…
"In this ground-breaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. The candid personal essays drill to the core of disappointment and compassion, but share hope for the future, as writers recount their experiences with schizophrenia…
In this ground-breaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. The candid personal essays drill to the core of disappointment and compassion, but share hope for the future, as writers recount their experiences with schizophrenia,…
"In this ground-breaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. The candid personal essays drill to the core of disappointment and compassion, but share hope for the future, as writers recount their experiences with schizophrenia…
Nicotine Use in Mental Illness and Neurological Disorders, a volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series, is a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research into nicotine use in mental illness and neurological disorders. It reviews current knowledge and u…
by Magris, Claudio, Appel, Anne Milano
fromMargellos world republic of letters book
by Magris, Claudio, Appel, Anne Milano
fromMargellos world republic of letters book
by Magris, Claudio, Appel, Anne Milano
fromMargellos world republic of letters book
"Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely un…
