Scenes of Madness
also Derek Russell Davis
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Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader Features
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Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS X 10.4.10-10.5, Sony Reader PRS-505 Features
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Scenes of Madness Summary
| Unlike the `textbook' description of mental illness, discusses an earlier tradition that led psychiatrists to turn to Shakespeare's plays for such models as Ophelia and Lear, to help them understand the madness observed in their patients. |
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| Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological process in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, King Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois, Davis shows how madness in plays is put into the crucial experiences of an individual's history and current relationships, and demonstrates that these stories can be an exciting source of insight into mental illness. |
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