Introduction: Beyond Illness
Part One: Structures: Psychiatrists, Institutions, Treatments
Chapter One: ‘I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question’:
R.D. Laing and the Figure of the Psychiatrist
Chapter Two: ‘I guess that this must be the place’: Sites of Madness
Chapter Three: ‘It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient’: Treating Madness
Part Two: Experiences: Realities, Bodies, Moods
Chapter Four: Imagining Reality: Perceptual Experiences on Stage and Screen
Chapter Five: ‘I watch myself disappear in their eyes, in their tesses, I talk loud but
still I don’t exist’: Women’s Bodies and Psychopathology
Chapter Six: Something and Nothing: Moods of Madness
Appendix
Biography
Anna Harpin is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, and Co-Artistic Director of the theatre company Idiot Child, with whom she works as a writer and director.
