This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Fe

"Madness can afford the individual certain resources and abilities that are not available to others. The fantasy life, free flight of ideas, distortions of real

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kus