eBook

Manic Minds

Hermsen, Lisa M

2011,2021

Overview

From its first depictions in ancient medical literature to contemporary depictions in brain imaging, mania has been largely associated with its Greek roots, \"to rage.\" Prior to the nineteenth century, \"mania\" was used interchangeably with \"madness.\" Although its meanings shifted over time, the word remained layered with the type of madness first-century writers described: rage, fury, frenzy. Even now, the mental illness we know as bipolar disorder describes conditions of extreme irritability, inflated grandiosity, and excessive impulsivity.Spanning several centuries,Manic Mindstraces the multiple ways in which the word \"mania\" has been used by popular, medical, and academic writers. It reveals why the rhetorical history of the word is key to appreciating descriptions and meanings of the \"manic\" episode.\" Lisa M. Hermsen examines the way medical professionals analyzed the manic condition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and offers the first in-depth analysis of contemporary manic autobiographies: bipolar figures who have written from within the illness itself.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: academic writers / ancient / ancient medical literature / autobiographies / Bipolar Disorder / Bipolar disorder-History / bipolar figures / brain imaging / brain mapping / brain medical research / contemporary / contemporary depictions / diagnosis / etiology / excessive impulsivity / extreme irritability / first-century writers / frenzy / fury / Greek roots / health / Health Sciences / History / illness / inflated grandiosity / Lisa M. Hermsen / madness / mania / manic / manic autobiographies / manic condition / manic episode / Manic Minds / Manic-depressive illness / meanings shifted / MEDICAL / MEDICAL / General / MEDICAL / History / MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General / medical literature / medical professionals / Medical sciences / medical writers / medicine / mental health / mental illness / methods / mood disorders / multiple ways / Neuropsychiatry / Neuropsychiatry-History / neuroscience / nineteenth century / nursing / popular writers / Pre nineteenth cenutry literature / Psychiatry / PSYCHOLOGY / rage / rhetorical history / therapy / to rage / twentieth centuries
• ISBN: 9780813552033, 0813552036, 0813551579, 9780813551579, 0813551587, 9780813551586