{"product_id":"madness-art-and-society","title":"Madness, Art, and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e, rather than \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments’, illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar’s \u003ci\u003eMary Barnes \u003c\/i\u003eand Milos Forman’s \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Experiences: realities, bodies, moods’, promblematises diagnostic categories and proposes more radically open models of thinking in relation to experiences of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kelly’s \u003ci\u003eDonnie Darko \u003c\/i\u003eand Duncan Macmillan’s \u003ci\u003ePeople, Places, and Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading its case studies as a counter-discourse to orthodox psychiatry, \u003ci\u003eMadness, Art, and Society \u003c\/i\u003eseeks a more nuanced understanding of the plurality of madness in society, and in so doing, offers an outstanding resource for students and scholars alike. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261634728280,"sku":"9781138784284","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138784284_3636449d-a327-476d-aca3-3f68c6c88ba2.jpg?v=1779170454","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/madness-art-and-society","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}