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Book My Brother s Madness

Download or read book My Brother s Madness written by Paul Pines and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Brother's Madness is based on the author's relationship with his brother-who had a psychotic breakdown in his late forties-and explores the unfolding of two intertwined lives and the nature of delusion. Circumstances lead one brother from juvenile crime on the streets of Brooklyn to war-torn Vietnam, to a fast-track life as a Hollywood publicist and to owning and operating The Tin Palace, one of New York's most legendary jazz clubs, while his brother falls into, and fights his way back from, a delusional psychosis. My Brother's Madness is part thriller, part exploration that not only describes the causes, character, and journey of mental illness, but also makes sense of it. It is ultimately a story of our own humanity, and answers the question, Am I my brother's keeper?

Book Imagining Robert

Download or read book Imagining Robert written by Jay Neugeboren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagining Robert" is the most honest book to date on the lives of the millions of families that must cope, day by day and year by year, over the course of a lifetime, with a condition for which, in most cases, there is no cure. By rendering his brother's mental illness in all its complexity and mystery, Jay Neugeboren has shown how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love

Book Foxcatcher

Download or read book Foxcatcher written by Mark Schultz and published by Plume. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling champion, was shot in the back by du Pont heir John E. du Pont at the family's famed Foxcatcher Farm estate in Pennsylvania. Following the murder, du Pont barricaded himself in his home for two days before he was finally captured. How did the so-called best friend of amateur wrestling come to commit such a horrifying, senseless murder? For the first time ever, Dave's brother, Mark--another Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler under du Pont's patronage--tells the full story. Fascinating, powerful, and deeply personal, Foxcatcher is a riveting account as told by the only person close enough to know the mind of the murderer." -- Page [4] cover.

Book Creativity and Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert Rothenberg
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 1990-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780801840111
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Creativity and Madness written by Albert Rothenberg and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.

Book Return To The Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glyn Haynie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04
  • ISBN : 9781734026030
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Return To The Madness written by Glyn Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Eddie Henderson finds himself making new promises to the fallen, and to himself, as he comes face-to-face with a ruthless and cruel Viet Cong lieutenant. For the first time, will Eddie find himself putting vengeance before duty?

Book Suspicious Minds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel Gold
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-07-21
  • ISBN : 143918156X
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Suspicious Minds written by Joel Gold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.

Book The Canadian Brothers  Or  The Prophecy Fulfilled

Download or read book The Canadian Brothers Or The Prophecy Fulfilled written by Richardson (Major, John) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brothers  a Novel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Harriet Drury
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Brothers a Novel written by Anna Harriet Drury and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Street Freak

Download or read book Street Freak written by Jared Dillian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erroneously states "1st Touchstone hardcover edition" in paperback copy.

Book The Two Brothers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book The Two Brothers written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Crazy Critter Race

Download or read book The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Crazy Critter Race written by Maxwell Eaton, III and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race is on for Ace and Bub in their sixth adventure in this popular young graphic novel series, which Kirkus called “funny from the first panel!” Ace and Bub are tangled up in an island-hopping competition, and there’s more than just the grand prize—a houseboat!—at stake. The salesman and sponsor is Crazy Critter (and he really is craaazy), and it soon becomes clear that he has more than publicity for his houseboat dealership to gain from the race. Before long, the brothers are wrapped up in the plot: a fast-growing vine is entangling all the nearby islands! Which of their fellow competitors can help them put a stop to this outbreak—and which ones are behind it?

Book The Mystery of Human Relationship

Download or read book The Mystery of Human Relationship written by Nathan Schwartz-Salant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human relationships are containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? Nathan Schwartz-Salant looks at all kinds of relationships through an analyst's eye. By analogy with the ancient system of alchemy he shows how states of mind that can undermine our relationships - in marriage, in creative work, in the workplace - can become transformative when brought to consciousness. It is only by learning how to access the interactive field of our relationships that we can enter this transformative process and explore its mysterious potential for self-realization.

Book Madness and the Social Link

Download or read book Madness and the Social Link written by Jean Max Gaudillière and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields. The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985-2000 contains seven of the "Madness and the Social Link" seminars given by psychoanalyst Jean-Max Gaudillière at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris between 1985 and 2000, transcribed by Françoise Davoine from her notes. Each year, the seminar was dedicated to an author who explored madness in his depiction of the catastrophes of history. Surprising the reader at every turn, the seminars speak of the close intertwining of personal lives and catastrophic historical events, and of the possibility of repairing injury to the psyche, the mind, and the body in their wake. These volumes expose the usefulness of literature as a tool for healing, for all those working in therapeutic fields, and will allow lovers of literature to discover a way of reading that gives access to more subtle perspectives and unsuspected interrelations.

Book Murder and Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew G. Schoenbachler
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2009-11-13
  • ISBN : 0813139422
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Murder and Madness written by Matthew G. Schoenbachler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp -- fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country's most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder -- committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave -- into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel's revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.

Book Who with me crazy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zhang Wei
  • Publisher : Devneybooks
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1304483029
  • Pages : 2278 pages

Download or read book Who with me crazy written by Zhang Wei and published by Devneybooks. This book was released on with total page 2278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was ten years old, my mother ran away from home because I couldn't stand my father's eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Since then, I have occasionally experienced a little fatherly love, and I have completely become a child with a mother and no father's pain.

Book Century Path

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Century Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: