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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Bibliography
2 Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique
Introduction
Diagnosis, Realism and the Reality of the Asylum
Foucault and the Practical Critique
The Roadmap to Resistance and Pluralism
Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Psychiatry in Sarah Daniel's Head-Rot Holiday
The Multiplicity of Interstices
The Failure of Tactics
The Failure and Necessity of Female Solidarity
Diagnosis Through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange
The Multivalence of Hegemony in Blue/Orange
Language and Power in Blue/Orange
The Spectacle of the Body of the 'Mad Person'
The Political Construction of Christopher
The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect
The Mad Person in the White Coat: Uncertainties in Psychiatric Power
The Sane in the Asylum, the Subjected Body of the 'Mad Person'
A Visit to the Madhouse
The Hospital Bed and the Question of Care
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space and Mad Experience
Introduction
Mad Experience, Hallucination, Theatre and Space
Radical Spatialities and Radical Spaces
Uncertain Meanings and the Family in The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Open Dialogue, Therapy, Representation
Tolerating Uncertainty
The Family Show
Hallucination: Family and Madness Coming Together
Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in The Skriker
Fairy of Nature or Madness: A Confusion of Meanings
Far, Far, Away: Playing with the Fairytale
Away with the Fairies: The Magical and the Real in Material Space
Madness Through Magical Thinking
Smoke in Your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality and Invisible Violence in Debbie Tucker green's nut
Smoke and Light: Invisible Violence in nut
Realism, the Ex-Wife, Gender and Madness
Intersectionality and Space
New Spatialities of Madness: The Possibility of Solidarity
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad
Introduction
Suicidology: Durkheim, Sociology and Politicized Accounts
Ethical Relations to the Individual Suicide Event
The Possibility of Witnessing
Witnessing and Performance
Witnessing and Suicide in Performance
Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis
Testimony: Sight and Light
Psychiatry and the Absence of the Witness
The Theatre and the Audience, Possibilities of Sight and Witnessing
What's My Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's Fragile
Within the Leap, Precarity, Interaction
Multiplicities of Suicide Within the Leap
What's My Motivation: Suicide and Audience Interaction
Witnessing and the Self-Reflexive Gaze
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Bibliography
2 Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique
Introduction
Diagnosis, Realism and the Reality of the Asylum
Foucault and the Practical Critique
The Roadmap to Resistance and Pluralism
Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Psychiatry in Sarah Daniel's Head-Rot Holiday
The Multiplicity of Interstices
The Failure of Tactics
The Failure and Necessity of Female Solidarity
Diagnosis Through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange
The Multivalence of Hegemony in Blue/Orange
Language and Power in Blue/Orange
The Spectacle of the Body of the 'Mad Person'
The Political Construction of Christopher
The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect
The Mad Person in the White Coat: Uncertainties in Psychiatric Power
The Sane in the Asylum, the Subjected Body of the 'Mad Person'
A Visit to the Madhouse
The Hospital Bed and the Question of Care
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space and Mad Experience
Introduction
Mad Experience, Hallucination, Theatre and Space
Radical Spatialities and Radical Spaces
Uncertain Meanings and the Family in The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Open Dialogue, Therapy, Representation
Tolerating Uncertainty
The Family Show
Hallucination: Family and Madness Coming Together
Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in The Skriker
Fairy of Nature or Madness: A Confusion of Meanings
Far, Far, Away: Playing with the Fairytale
Away with the Fairies: The Magical and the Real in Material Space
Madness Through Magical Thinking
Smoke in Your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality and Invisible Violence in Debbie Tucker green's nut
Smoke and Light: Invisible Violence in nut
Realism, the Ex-Wife, Gender and Madness
Intersectionality and Space
New Spatialities of Madness: The Possibility of Solidarity
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad
Introduction
Suicidology: Durkheim, Sociology and Politicized Accounts
Ethical Relations to the Individual Suicide Event
The Possibility of Witnessing
Witnessing and Performance
Witnessing and Suicide in Performance
Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis
Testimony: Sight and Light
Psychiatry and the Absence of the Witness
The Theatre and the Audience, Possibilities of Sight and Witnessing
What's My Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's Fragile
Within the Leap, Precarity, Interaction
Multiplicities of Suicide Within the Leap
What's My Motivation: Suicide and Audience Interaction
Witnessing and the Self-Reflexive Gaze