Fiction's Madness - Softcover

Liam Clarke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906254230 ISBN 13: 9781906254230

Publisher: PCCS Books, 2009

Synopsis

Rare book

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Review:

This is a book of immense power. It deploys all the devices that literature is capable of to press its case, to argue forcibly and persuasively for the humanising of psychiatry - It is a book that demonstrates how fundamental to clinical practice is a familiarity with the humanities, the interpretative and critical domains of our intellectual life - The act of reading carefully prepares us to listen carefully in the clinical setting, to think and reflect, to consider and engage empathically, and to imagine the world of the Other as if it were our own. Femi Oyebode, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham Clarke is a polymath whose turn of phrase might irritate as well as inform. In a sense though, this is one of the strengths of the book -it invigorated me ... and should invigorate any clinician who might ever have contemplated being an 'artist-practitioner', and help all of us withstand pressures to endorse narrow conceptions of what it is to be a human being. It would form the basis of a brilliant course, includes short discussion papers relating to each text (e.g., on Laing, Freud and Jung) and any course organiser would of course be able to add their personal favourites ... Guy Holmes, Clinical Psychologist, South Staffs and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust

About the Author:

Liam Clarke is currently Reader in Mental Health at the University of Brighton. For many years he has been involved in mental health care mainly through writing and teaching. His current research entails writing up a non-model of ordinary decency to account for ethical practice. In addition, he is putting the finishing touches to a manuscript which critiques ethnography and its assumptions.

About this edition

• Publisher: PCCS Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906254230
• ISBN 13: 9781906254230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270