care 3 , 31 , 42 –47 , 51 –67 , 71 –73 , 82 , 86 , 162 , 164 , 174 , 191 , 195 –96 , 201 , 203 , 217 , 228 , 236 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 245 , 259 , 315 –19 , 333
asylum/health/hospital/institutionalised/psychiatric care 191 , 195 –96 , 203 , 228 , 236 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 259
the care in The Bell Jar 201
The Vanishing Act 245
confinement 1 , 5 , 51 –53 , 55 –56 , 66 , 100 , 138n , 142 , 191 –95 , 200 –10 , 213 , 221 , 233 , 235 , 240 Foucault
solitary confinement
mental distress as confinement 5
creativity (in literary madhouses) 59 , 66 , 93 , 108 , 279 –83 , 285 –88 , 292 , 295 –96 , 297n , 313 –315 , 319 , 321 depression
madness
;
as creativity
cultural heritage of psychiatry 1 –5 , 32 , 52 –53 , 87 , 164 , 181 , 191 , 194 –95 , 233 , 235 , 256 , 273 , 280 –81 , 285 , 289 , 291 , 295 –96
as an early Stuart experience 32
‘mad woman’ 285
depression 117 , 123 , 157 , 201 –02 , 280 , 287 , 289 , 296 , 298 , 306 –07 , 328 , 332 , 336 , 340 Cvetkovich, Ann
;
Depression: A Public Feeling
De Quincey 157
depressive mode of experience
‘radical empathy’ 332
disability movement 227
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder(MPD) 162 –68 , 168 , 172 , 175 –77 , 182 –85
heritage
see anti-psychiatry heritage/movement
see care
;
see literary heritage of psychiatric care
see cultural heritage of psychiatry
implicated subjects 242
insanity 26 , 59n , 67 , 93 , 102 , 113 –15 , 118 , 143 , 237 , 258n , 262 , 264 , 311 insania (medieval pathology)
as social construct 67
colonial territories 258n
inebriety 143
in Faubert 59n
poetry and 93
sanity as the opposite of 311
senses of 26
stigma of 264
madness 2 , 4 –5 , 12 –14 , 17 –18 , 20 , 22 , 33 –34 , 36 –41 , 51 –54 , 56 , 58 , 61n , 62 –63 , 67 , 81 , 84 , 91 , 95 , 98 , 106 –08 , 114 –15 , 117 –18 , 120 –21 , 124 , 126 –28 , 130 –32 , 192 –94 , 198 , 233 –52 , 257 –58 , 261 –62 , 281 –99 , 307 , 310 , 330 , 334 Foucault, Michel
as a social construct 67
as disease of volition
as political discourse 84
erotomania leading to 108
bouts of
Mandeville
see Godwin
meekness 27
mental distress 2 –5 , 29 –32 , 35 , 62 , 66 –67 , 105 , 108 , 126 , 128 , 193 –95 , 202 , 210 , 217 , 233 , 242 , 255 , 257 –60 , 272 , 281 , 308 , 310 , 318 , 320 , 326 –29 , 332 –34 , 336 , 344
biological model of 308
caused by oppression 193
support people in 217
Mental Health Act (1959, Britain) 238
Mental Health Act (1960, Scotland) 240
Mental Health Act (1963, United States) 196
Mental Health Act (2001, Ireland) 240
mental illness 12 , 15 , 29 –47 , 94 –111 , 162n , 166 , 191 –210 , 213 , 220 –21 , 225 , 255 , 257 , 260 –75 , 303 –04 , 306 –08 , 310 –11 , 320
recovery from 166
mind (as a house metaphor) 205
mind-body connection 331
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
see Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
narrative practices 162
patient voice 249
pernicious anemia 175
political idealism 107
psychiatric institutions 56 , 191 , 194 –97 , 213 , 221 , 234 , 236 , 241 –42 , 244 , 274 ,
as sites of Eurocentric oppression 236
social control mechanism 241
Queer 113 –14 , 117 –19 , 125 , 129 –133 , 269 , 303 –04 , 315 –16 , 317n , 318 –19 , 321
activism 318
failure 316n
feminism 321
strategy 317n
Quaker (community) 83
Reville, David 224
rhizomic narration 264
“Rights and Wrongs” (column in Phoenix Rising) 222
schizophrenia 174 , 196 –97 , 203 –06 , 209 , 220 , 241 , 255 , 263 –66 , 272
as ideologically charged concept 266
gender 272
scrapie 13
sensibility (in connection to madness) 62
shame 261
Sontag, Susan 264
Stigmatisation 2 , 29 –32 , 41 , 47 , 137 , 164 , 175 , 194 , 197 –99 , 210 , 216 , 233 –34 , 238 , 261 –65 , 273 , 281 , 297 , 326 , 330
suicide (in first-person accounts) 225
Therapeutic practices 99 –100 , 123 –28 , 166 , 196 asylums
;
music as therapeutic practice
music (therapeutic use of)
trauma 71 , 73 –78 , 91 , 95 , 107 , 114 , 125 –26 , 158 , 165 –69 , 171 , 177 , 181 , 247 , 258 , 269 , 272
objectification 272
of institutionalisation 247
physical pain 158
post-traumatic stress disorder 165
therapeutic methodologies 167
treatment
see care
;
see treatment
see confession (religious treatment)
see mental distress
;
see medication/treatment
see mental illness
;
see treatment/diagnosis
see pain
;
see treatment
typification/stereotypification 61 , 279 , 282 –86 , 292 , 295 –97 , 299 , 307 , 310 –12 , 320 cultural heritage of psychiatry
;
‘mad woman’
cultural memory of psychiatry
;
‘mad’ female characters
female ‘madness’
madness
;
as offensive label
madness
;
women’s mental illness narratives/discourses
‘mad’ female 61
institutionalised women 307
voudou 258