{"product_id":"manic-minds-manias-mad-history-and-its-neuro-future-paperback-softback-9780813551586","title":"Manic Minds; Mania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813551586","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eManic Minds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMania's Mad History and Its Neuro-Future\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa M. Hermsen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813551586\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e172 pages, 12 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Bringing together current science studies concepts and the social history of mental illness, Lisa Hermsen provides an innovative approach to mania as a dynamic, rhetorical and material figure.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Janet Wirth-Cauchon (Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories) \u003cdiv\u003eIn this wonderfully smart and lively account of mania\/bipolar disorder,  Lisa Hermsen explores the rhetorical history and multiple realities of a  'mental disorder' haunted by its insistent ties to madness.\u003c\/div\u003e - Jackie Orr (Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManic Minds\u003c\/i\u003e tells a thorough history of mania from a medical and personal perspective. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning several centuries, \u003ci\u003eManic Minds\u003c\/i\u003e traces 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559300231448,"sku":"9780813551586","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/manic-minds-manias-mad-history-and-its-neuro-future-paperback-softback-9780813551586","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}