The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania

The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania
ISBN-10
1487537034
ISBN-13
9781487537036
Series
The Rapids
Category
Psychology
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2020-09-10
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Author
Sam Twyford-Moore

Description

The Rapids explores how individuals with manic depression can mediate their identities, sense of agency, responsibility, and social being in a world saturated by negative media. Using a mixture of reflections on the self, literary and cinematic representations of mania, and media coverage of celebrities with mania such as Kanye West, Carrie Fisher, and Spalding Gray, the author discusses what it means to live with a diagnosis of "bipolarity" in contemporary society. There are no easy answers in this book for how people should view or encounter manic depression, particularly as it represents itself across the lifetime of someone diagnosed with the condition. Instead, with insight and empathy, Sam Twyford-Moore opens up and expands the conversation around this highly stigmatised and extremely misunderstood condition.

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