Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture Pdf

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Release: 2009-01-19
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0691141061
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical industry, and psychotropic drugs. Charting how these worlds intersect with the wider popular culture, she reveals how people living under the description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for manic behavior. Mania, Martin shows, has come to be r Download Bipolar Expeditions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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