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American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
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American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation

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American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
Book by Jonah Raskin; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Beat Generation, Ginsberg, Allen--1926---Knowledge--Psychology, Ginsberg, Allen--1926---Psychology, Literature And Mental Illness--United States--History--20th Century, Mental Illness In Literature, Poetry--Psychological Aspects
...alk. paper 1. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926 Howl. 2. Literature and mental illness United States History 20th century. 3. Ginsberg...Poetry Psychological aspects. 6. Mental illness in literature. 7. Beat generation. I. Title. ps3513...
2.
Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness
Book by Otto F. Wahl; Rutgers University Press, 1995
Subjects: Mass Media--United States, Mental Illness In Mass Media
...Lay readers have many opportunities to read about mental illness in the magazines they buy, for example. According to the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature , a yearly comprehensive index of magazine articles...
3.
The Sociology and Anthropology of Mental Illness: A Reference Guide
Book by Edwin D. Driver; University of Massachusetts Press, 1972
Subjects: Mental Illness--Bibliography, Social Psychiatry--Bibliography
...therefore from the reference guide are studies of mental deficiency and mental hygiene, the latter being defined...employers who are covered under Part Seven, toward mental illness and the mentally ill. In Part Three, there are 209...NOTES 1. Ralph E. ODette, "A Note on the Literature Problem", in Community Mental Health and Social...journals is occurring outside of, as well as within, the United States. We suggest that the reader can obtain maximum benefit...Social Stress and Mental Disease from the Eighteenth Century to the Present: Some Origins of Social Psychiatry...1958, pp. 80-114. 204 SCHRENK M., "On the History of Social Psychiatry: Isolation and Idylls as Therapeutics...
4.
Schizophrenia and Manic-Depressive Disorder: The Biological Roots of Mental Illness as Revealed by the Landmark Study of Identical Twins
Book by E. Fuller Torrey; Basic Books, 1994
Subjects: Diseases In Twins, Manic-Depressive Illness, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia--Genetic Aspects
...to the recent explosion of knowledge in this area. He has authored more than...from the National Alliance for the Mentally III in 1985, the Foundations Fund Prize...problems, head trauma, and physical illnesses in affected twins. 90...prominently in European and American literature. Shakespeare, himself the father of...
5.
Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness: A Practical Guide
Book by Donald M. Linhorst; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Mentally Ill--Services For--United States, Social Work With People With Mental Disabilities--United States
...including counseling, the ministry, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, rehabilita- tion, and social work. Finally, it can serve...empowerment into their work. The fields of nursing, psychi- atry, psychology, rehabilitation, and social work have added the term into...
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Idealized: Multi-Setting Uses and Strategies over the Course of Severe Mental Illness
Journal article by Rodney Corry, Thomas C. Jewell; Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Vol. 23, 2001
Subjects: Mental illness--Care and treatment, Psychiatric hospital care--Technique, Rehabilitation--Technique
...Lamb, 1994). The growth of community mental health centers has placed an increased...promote success for mental health consumers in outpatient settings. A review of past literature shows that psychiatric rehabilitation...minimize the disabling effects of mental illness and promote the highest possible level...
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"When Black Women Start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me
Journal article by Anna Mollow; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: African American women--Health aspects, Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama--Works, Disability studies, Memoirs, Mental disorders--Portrayals, Mental illness--Portrayals, Sexual politics--Portrayals, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression (Autobiography), Women authors--Works, Women writers--Works
...Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture in Literature. New York: Columbia U, 1997. Grillo, Trina, and Stephanie...Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies." 9.1-2 (2003). "Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Supplement...Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: Norton, 1997. Reiser, Stanley...Wendell, Susan. "Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities." Hypatia 16.4 (2001): 17-33. White...organizing. (3.) Born in Ghana, Danquah emigrated to the United States when she was six years old (103). Although being an...nature of Danquahs statement. (26.) In the eighteenth century the physical examination was regarded as so unimportant...
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A Program to Assist People with Severe Mental Illness in Formulating Realistic Life Goals
Journal article by Bacon F.L. Ng, Hector W.H. Tsang; The Journal of Rehabilitation, Vol. 68, 2002
Subjects: American Psychiatric Association, Hope, Mental disorders--Care and treatment, Mental illness--Care and treatment
A Program to Assist People with Severe Mental Illness in Formulating Realistic Life Goals. by Bacon F.L. Ng , Hector W.H. Tsang The literature reveals that spiritual and hope-inspiring issues have recently received more emphasis...
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Prisons of the Mind: Social Value and Economic Inefficiency in the Criminal Justice Response to Mental Illness
Journal article by Amanda C. Pustilnik; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 96, 2005
Subjects: Administration of criminal justice--Social aspects, Alternative sentencing--Laws, regulations and rules, Alternatives to imprisonment--Laws, regulations and rules, Civil commitment--Laws, regulations and rules, Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects, Mentally ill persons--Laws, regulations and rules, Mentally ill--Laws, regulations and rules
...1968) (explaining that the eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers Beccaria and Bentham "explicitly applied an...otherwise it is not, ....") (citing LEON RADZINOWICZ, A HISTORY Or ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS ADMINISTRATION FROM...time associated with holding youth in urgent need of mental health services. Id.; see also id. at 9-10 (reporting...handling or treating children suffering from mental illnesses). (81) U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE, MENTAL HEALTH AND INMATES...POLITICAL LIFE IN THE REAGAN ERA 29 (1990). (115) Five states have abolished the insanity defense, replacing it with...Pasewark, The Insanity Plea: A Review of the Research Literature, 9 J. PSYCHIATRY L. 357 (1981); Richard A. Pasewark...
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Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Mental Illness: A Literature Review
Journal article by Colin Hudson, Jeffrey Chan; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 37, 2002
Subjects: Intelligence levels--Psychological aspects, Mental efficiency--Psychological aspects, Mental illness--Diagnosis, Mentally disabled persons--Diagnosis
...of intellectual disability and mental illness, and the problems due to sampling of subjects. Clinical presentations of mental illness in people with intellectual disability may...considered misleading in the disability literature. However Steffenburg et al. (1996...
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magazine articles on: (Mental Illness In Literature) OR (Beat Generation) OR (Literature And Mental Illness United States History 20th Century) OR (Ginsberg Allen 1926 Psychology)  - 1989 results

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Should We Destigmatize Mental Illness?
Magazine article by Richard E. Vatz; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 124, May 1996
Subjects: Mental disorders--Public opinion, Mental illness--Public opinion, Mentally ill persons--Care and treatment, Mentally ill--Care and treatment
...mental illness that lacks any voluntary component. This view, in turn, is tied to the medical model stating that all of mental illness is analogous to physical illness that happens to people...symptoms of mental illness. Nowhere in any of the anti-stigma literature is there any consideration of the view that eliminating...
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Shock and Disbelief: Electroconvulsive Therapy Was Once Psychiatry's Most Terrifying Tool ... It Is Now a Safe and Effective Treatment for a Wide Range of Mental Illness
Magazine article by Daniel Smith; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, February 2001
Subjects: Electroshock, Mental disorders--Research, Psychiatric research
...European hospitals. By 1940 it had appeared in the United States. Psychiatrists were...the sadness and hopelessness of most mental illnesses." ECT was a great step up. Patients...disclosure to seep into the official literature. The report published this year by the...
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Psychoanalyzing the Public: The Cultural Subverters Use Allegations of Mental Illness to Squelch Opposition. They Also Collect Psychological Data on Americans to Scientifically Predict and Mold Public Opinion
Magazine article by Beverly K. Eakman; The New American, Vol. 19, December 29, 2003
...surveying went into selling a TV show featuring homosexuals in such a way that it would be accepted by a mass audience...data gathering or its analysis was flawed. Schools and Mental Health Fraud Comparing the proverbial school test and...reputation and position will be irrevocably tarnished by a mental illness accusation. Can forced placement in a psychiatric facility...or public school students being forced to read homosexual literature? The National Institute of Mental Health/ National Science...
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Hitler & Stalin, 20th Century Killers
Magazine article by Eugene H. Methvin; National Review, Vol. 37, May 31, 1985
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf--Biography, Soviet Union--History, Soviet history, Stalin, Joseph--Biography
...documented in the psychiatric literature. He was clearly and overty...a real and powerful impulse in Hitlers psyche. Indeed, Waite...his former comrades strange mental gymnastic in clinging to the...measure of an intellectual illness or immaturity among us. It...
5.
Flawed Mental Health Policies and the Tragedy of Criminalization
Magazine article by Ron Honberg, Darcy Gruttadaro; Corrections Today, Vol. 67, February 2005
Subjects: Mental disorders--Analysis, Mental illness--Analysis, Prisons--Health aspects
...do the unthinkable--relinquish custody of their children in order to get them the care they need. (8) And without options...Even when services are available, some people with serious mental illnesses do not use these services. There are many reasons for this...cracks." Thus, not surprisingly, there is a large body of literature documenting the success of these programs in reducing hospitalizations...
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When the Wife Went Mad; an Unpunctuated Look at Mental Illness
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 22, 2007
Subjects: Mental disorders, Mental illness
...Mad; an Unpunctuated Look at Mental Illness. Byline: Robert VerBruggen, THE...objection, not by making a case that the mentally ill are indeed responsible for their...difficult prose. The tale takes place in early-1980s Colombia. Aguilar, a literature professor who started delivering Purina...Nicholas Portulinus, who suffered the same illness. The environmental causes are twofold...
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The Beat Generation; HOME STUDIO HARDWARE Think You're the Next Lemar? Here's the Kit You Need to Make a Hit Single at Home
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 27, 2006
...Who needs an expensive studio lined with egg boxes? Simply plug a guitar or mic into the D4 and you can be laying down tracks in seconds. Its pocket-sized case hides a USB port and dozens of effects and editing functions. VerdictMake music wherever you...
3.
The Beat Generation; THE ARTS A Rash of Talented Young Conductors Is Taking Up the Baton at the Head of the World's Orchestras
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 26, 2004
Subjects: Rattle, Simon
...from Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen, no conductor under the age of 60 commands high-street recognition in any world capital. The loss of fame has created a transitional log jam. Musicians fearing for their jobs, and benefactors...
4.
PROVE YOU'RE EXTRA SPECIAL; It's Your Chance to Join the New Beat Generation
Newspaper article by Sheila Prophet; The Mirror (London, England), November 13, 1997
...Office and the police want many more people to join them. In London alone, the Metropolitan Police have launched a major...Constable you may encounter stress and trauma, so any physical or mental condition that might hamper your performance will mean you...
5.
The Doctors Said My Writing Proved I Was Mad. in Fact It Saved My Sanity; Novelist Clare Allan's First Book, Poppy Shakespeare, Has Been Listed for the Prestigious Orange Prize. It Is a Darkly Humorous Tale of the Mental Health System Which Mirrors Her Own Life
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 27, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Health care industry--Health aspects, Health care industry--Personal narratives, Mental disorders--Health aspects, Mental disorders--Personal narratives, Mental health--Health aspects, Mental health--Personal narratives, Mental illness--Health aspects, Mental illness--Personal narratives
...story, she relaxes, and soon I am captivated. An English literature graduate from Durham University, her father a Cambridge...mother an archaeologist, Allan can remember precisely the day in 1995, age 26, when the music stopped. "I was walking down...eating. "There wasnt one specific trigger: my aunt suffered mental illness so there was some history in the family, but ultimately...
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Beat Generation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and beatific illumination like that of some Eastern religions (e.g., Zen Buddhism ). In literature they adopted rhythms of simple American speech and of bop...
2.
Snyder, Gary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SNYDER, GARY 1930 , American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived in Japan from 1956 to 1968. His poetry, influenced by Zen Buddhism and Native American culture, celebrates the peace found...
3.
Kerouac, Jack
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Lowell, Mass., studied at Columbia Univ. One of the leaders of the beat generation , he was the author of the novel On the Road (1957), widely considered the testament of the beat movement. Kerouacs writings reflect a frenetic, restless pursuit...
4.
Ginsberg, Allen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac...Whitman were some of the sources for Ginsbergs quest to glorify everyday experience...1947 1997 was published in 2006. Allen Verbatim (1974) is a collection of...
5.
Burroughs, William Seward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...BURROUGHS, WILLIAM SEWARD 1914 97, American novelist, b. St. Louis, grad. Harvard, 1936. He was an elder member of the beat generation . Junkie (1953), originally published under the pseudonym William Lee, and Queer (written 1953, pub. 1985) are autobiographical...
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