[PDF] Mercy And Madness eBook

Author : Beverly Lionberger Hodgins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493059750

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Spokane, Washington’s first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sons—leaving her husband behind in Ohio—in 1888. She sought a better climate for her health and worked tirelessly for the health of all of Spokane’s citizens, but particularly women and children and especially the poor. She helped found the Spokane Humane Society and the Spokane Public Library, and she was beloved and respected in the community. Then, in 1903, one of her sons died and she seemingly became unhinged. She would be seen wandering the streets, wailing and inconsolable, and her behavior became extremely erratic. In 1905, she was accused, arrested, and convicted of arson, then sentenced to four years of hard labor in the state penitentiary. She escaped into the forests of Idaho, where she hid from a massive manhunt for a week before being captured and sent to prison in Walla Walla. She eventually returned to Spokane a broken yet determined woman and died in 1917. Despite the tragic and violent events that characterized her later years, today Dr. Mary A. Latham is honored in Spokane for the good she did in the first part of her life. Mercy and Madness captures the captivating, outrageous, and sometimes-sorrowful life of Dr. Mary Archard Latham in her own words.

Author : John R. Haule
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1926715047

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'Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love' examines the transforming experience of romantic love in literature, myth, religion, and everyday life. A series of psychological meditations on the nature of romantic love and human relationship, Divine Madness takes the perspective that human love is a species of divine love and that our experience of romantic love both conceals and reveals the ultimate Lover and Beloved. John Haule draws on depth psychology, the mystical traditions of the world, and literature from Virgil to Milan Kundera to lead the reader inside the mind and heart of the lover. Each chapter explores a characteristic aspect of relationship, such as seduction and love play, the rapture of union, the agony of separation, madness, woundedness, and transcendence. Focusing on the soulful and spiritual meaning of these experiences, Divine Madness sheds light on our elations, obsessions, and broken hearts, but it also reconnects us with the wisdom of time immemorial. As a practicing Jungian analyst and former professor of religious studies, John Haule masterfully guides his readers through the labyrinth of everyday experience, and the often hidden layers of archetypal realities, sketching a philosophy of romantic love through the stories of the world's literature and mythology.

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933517575

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Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

Author : Beverly Lionberger Hodgins
Publisher : TwoDot
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493059744

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Author Beverly Lionberger Hodgins tells the true story of Spokane, Washington's first female physician, a popular woman who suffered a mental breakdown and was arrested and convicted of arson in the 19th century. But despite her sad spiral into madness, Dr. Mary Archard Latham's legacy and philanthropic work is still celebrated there today.

Author : Scott Perrin
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781517062736

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Scott Perrin's premier collection of 5 short horror stories. The stories range from ordinary terrors to the supernatural. A man wakes from a drug induced sleep to find himself at the bottom of a well. Another fellow falls asleep at his desk and finds himself alone in his large office building in the middle of the night.A woman is followed day after day by an increasingly aggressive canine.A scientist experiments with reviving a dead friend, leading to unintended cosmic consequences.A boy from the Middle Ages is captured from his family and held hostage in a tower by an unknown, unspeaking man in a suit of armor.Explore these exciting horror tales!

Author : Patrick Tracey
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0553905597

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In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia–a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophrenic code to learn how much–and how little–we know about this often misunderstood disease. Filled with history, science, and lore, Stalking Irish Madness is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Rosemary Daniell
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781944884741

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Poetry. Women's Studies. In THE MURDEROUS SKY Rosemary Daniell confronts with searing honesty and stunning poetry the pain of her daughter's addiction and her son's schizophrenia. Winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award, this is a book that haunts. As Gordon Walmsley says, "It took courage to write these poems, and it takes courage to read them."

Author : Terri Cheney
Publisher : Hachette Go
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0306846284

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Terri Cheney ripped the covers off her secret battle with bipolar disorder in her New York Times bestselling memoir, Manic. Now, in this "stigma-buster" and "must-read", she blends a gripping narrative with practical advice (Elyn Saks). Cheney flips mental illness inside out, exposing the visceral story of the struggles, stigma, relationship dilemmas, treatments, and recovery techniques she and others have encountered. Sometimes humorous, sometimes harrowing, Modern Madness is the ultimate owner's manual on mental illness, breaking this complex subject down into readily understandable concepts like Instructions for Use, Troubleshooting, Maintenance, and Warranties. Whether you have a diagnosis, love or work with someone who does, or are just trying to understand this emerging phenomenon of our times, Modern Madness is a courageous clarion call for acceptance, both personal and public. With her candid and riveting writing, Cheney delivers more than heartbreak; she promises hope.

Author : Pamela D. Toler
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0316392057

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A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point. Heroines of Mercy Street follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.

Author : Aleksandra Nicole Pfau
Publisher : Premodern Health, Disease, and
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9789462983359

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The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The madness of individuals played a role in engaging communities with legal mechanisms and proto-national identity constructs, as petitioners sought the king's mercy as an alternative to local justice. The resulting narratives about the mentally ill in late medieval France constructed madness as an inability to live according to communal rules. Although such texts defined madness through acts that threatened social bonds, those ties were reaffirmed through the medium of the remission letter. The composers of the letters presented madness as a communal concern, situating the mad within the household, where care could be provided. Those considered mad were usually not expelled but integrated, often through pilgrimage, surveillance, or chains, into their kin and communal relationships.