Face Of Madness Research Articles

Many Faces of Madness: Mindless Destruction with Snapshots of Preservation

This article is a brief analysis of two contexts of struggles, and also of celebration of the values of preservation of forests. One of the locations is in the Uttarakhand region well known for the emblematic “Chipko” movement of the 1980s, when women fought the epic battle to protect trees by hugging them. We study the documentary film by Deepa Dhanraj, based on the life of Sudesha Devi one of the leaders whose example brought women together to resist and fight the power of the state. The second location is the state of Jharkhand, which has seen ongoing struggles for conservation over decades. The echoes of the steps of the resistance movement can be heard in the powerful voice of Jacinta Kerketta. The life and work of these two activists present a case for reflection on the imbrication of the personal and the political in the context of social movements.

La locura popular en la Ilustración hispánica. Reflexiones en torno a la obra <em>Los Locos de Granada</em>

En esta ocasión presentamos el sainete inédito Los Locos de Granada, una obra anónima de finales del siglo XVIII, que narra la peculiar historia de un personaje en busca de la comadre que asista a su parturienta mujer. Desgraciadamente para él, se adentrará por error en la Casa de Locos de Granada, donde conocerá las múltiples facetas de la locura encarnada en seis personajes. Se trata de una obra única que nos permite acercarnos a la mentalidad de las clases populares dieciochescas y los sentimientos que la demencia suscitaba.

Richard Dadd: The Patient, the Artist, and the “Face of Madness”

Richard Dadd (1817–1886) was a well-known Victorian artist who murdered his father, compelled by the delusion that a demonic force possessed his father’s body. He was one of the first to bypass execution by reason of insanity and spent the remainder of his life in the Bethlem and Broadmoor asylums. Dadd is rare both as a patient and an artist because he left behind nearly a 40-year record of artwork and journals, which constitute a unique medical and psychiatric resource at a time when the ideas on the relationship of facial expression and madness were changing. Sir Charles Bell’s (1774–1842) widely accepted views that the “face of madness” is bestial and anatomically distinctive were being challenged by such physicians as Sir Alexander Morison (1779–1866), who was also Dadd’s own “alienist” (i.e., psychiatrist). The purpose of this article is to explore the nature and extent of the influence of Bell and Morison on Dadd, which has not been brought out in the existing studies. By a comparative analysis, it will be shown that Dadd may have conveyed a different view in his works that foreshadows subsequent developments that are closer to a modern understanding.

The face of madness in Romania: the origin of psychiatric photography in Eastern Europe

In 1870 the Romanian physician Nicolae G. Chernbach published a photographic atlas of the main types of mental alienation, a collection of twelve plates depicting mentally ill patients from the Marcutza Asylum in Bucharest. Each photograph included a diagnosis based on the clinical nosography and theories of the physiognomy of insanity acknowledged during the period. The publication of the atlas--just a few years after Hugh W. Diamond's initial use of photography for this purpose in Britain in the 1850s--means that the photographs were not only the first taken in Romania, but among the first photographs of the mentally ill. This study provides an insight into the origins of modern clinical psychiatry and medical advances in Romania, and the contemporary personalities in Romanian and Eastern European medicine.

Don Quixote in England: the aesthetics of laughter

Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore. In this comprehensive study of the reception and conversion of Don Quixote in England, Ronald Paulson highlights the qualities of the novel that most attracted English imitators. The English Don Quixote was not the same knight who meandered through Spain, or found a place in other translations throughout Europe. The English Don Quixote found employment in all sorts of specifically English ways, not excluding the political uses to which a Spanish fool could be turned. According to Paulson, a major impact of the novel and its hero was their stimulation of discussion about comedy itself, what he calls the aesthetics of laughter. When Don Quixote reached England he did so at the time of the rise of empiricism, and adherents of both sides of the empiricist debate found arguments and evidence in the behavior and image of the noble knight. Four powerful disputes battered around his grey head: the proximity of madness and imagination; the definition of the beautiful; the cruelty of ridicule and its laughter; and the role of reason in the face of madness. Paulson's engaging account leads to a significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art.

Reviews : Mary Ann Jimenez. Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatments of the Insane, Hanover, New Hampshire: University of New England, 1987. Pp ix + 219. £16.75

Reviews : Mary Ann Jimenez. Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatments of the Insane, Hanover, New Hampshire: University of New England, 1987. Pp ix + 219. £16.75

Mary Ann Jimenez. Changing faces of madness: Early American attitudes and treatment of the Insane. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1987. 231 pp. $25.00 (cloth) (Reviewed by Jennifer Radden)

Mary Ann Jimenez. Changing faces of madness: Early American attitudes and treatment of the Insane. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1987. 231 pp. $25.00 (cloth) (Reviewed by Jennifer Radden)

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane. By Mary Ann Jimenez (Hanover and London: Published for Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, 1987. ix plus 219 pp.)

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane. By Mary Ann Jimenez (Hanover and London: Published for Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England, 1987. ix plus 219 pp.)

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane. Mary Ann Jimenez

<i>Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane</i>. Mary Ann Jimenez

The Many Faces of Madness

The Many Faces of Madness

"Nawghtye mallenchollye": some faces of madness in Tudor England.

(1987). “Nawghtye Mallenchollye”: Some Faces of Madness in Tudor England. The Historian: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 309-320.

Sander L. Gilman (editor), The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin ofpsychiatric photography, New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 111, illus., [no price stated

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The Face of Madness. By H. W. Diamond. (Pp. 111; illustrated; $5.95.) Brunner Mazel: New York. 1976.

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