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Madness and LiteratureWhat Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness\nAuthor(s): Lasse R. Gammelgaard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Exeter Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Exeter Press\nISBN-13: 9781905816378, 978-1905816378\nSynopsis\nMental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in turn been interested in and influenced by literature. Pioneers within philosophy, psychiatry and literature share the endeavour to explore and explain the human mind and behaviour, including what a society deems as being outside perceived normality.\n\nUsing a theoretical approach that is eclectic and transdisciplinary, this volume engages with literatures multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of mental ill health. The cases and the theory are in dialogue with a clinical approach, addressing issues and diagnoses such as .