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Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love (Excelsior Editions)
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About Dancing With Ophelia: Reconnecting
Product Description Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome. Review “This fascinating work is an insightful examination of historical and contemporary conceptions of madness.” ― CHOICE “This is an extraordinary book that combines meticulous literary scholarship with memoir. It bravely challenges us to reconsider and reframe mental illness, defined here as an ‘ultimate adventure in selfhood’ that connects to beauty, creativity, and the sublime. As it traces how skepticism of prevailing attitudes and treatments can save lives, Dancing with Ophelia is also, at its root, a deeply spiritual book that grapples with love, courage, ambition, and the idea of God.” ― Aviya Kushner, author of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible “This book offers an interesting and engagingly written exploration of mental distress that draws on a range of literary and scholarly sources in combination with personal experience. It sits within the small, but growing, body of work that interweaves personal narrative with an academic analysis of ‘illness’ or disruption.” ― Deborah Bowman, coauthor of Informed Consent: A Primer for Clinical Practice About the Author Jeanne Ellen Petrolle is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and the author of Religion without Belief: Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith, also published by SUNY Press.
