Shane Neilson's Dysphoria fearlessly confronts mental illness from all sides, taking the perspective of patient, doctor and observer. It explodes with love and longing, passion and fear. It wails to the strains of Percy Sledge and rides alongside Mad Max--crazy, but with a good guy's badge. It suffers the indignities of therapeutic measures and faces the helplessness of a parent witnessing his child's suffering. In Neilson's own words, Dysphoria 'throws acid from half-glasses but drinks some first to be fair.'
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- Includes bibliographical references (page 101)
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- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780889848436 9780889844025
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- PS8577.E5277
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- D977 2017eb
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- 1 electronic text (103 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 9
- The Grand High Medium Abominable 11
- Dysphoria 13
- Medical Inquiries and Observations 31
- Upon Diseases of the Mind 31
- Preface of the experienced physician as patient 33
- How to Heal the Sick 34
- Great care should be taken 35
- How to heal the sick with gaze 37
- Prescription for bloodletting 38
- Ongoing notes on bloodletting 39
- Gyrater 40
- Bartholin speaks in high terms of what he calls agellation in certain diseases 41
- There is a method of taming refractory horses patients 43
- The Sick Sing 44
- Phrenetic dispositions 45
- The death-hymn of the prisoner 46
- Tristimania 47
- Note from a bachelor with tristimania 49
- The doctors opinion on irrigation in this case of tristimania 50
- Dr Morelys written account of a boy at Naples for years 51
- Letters to Dr Rush from an escaped man who was so happy in his paroxysms of madness that when he was well he longed with impatience for their return 53
- The eldest son of a Scotch nobleman had great piety 56
- But madness is excited in the understanding most frequently by impressions that act primarily upon the heart 57
- Cowper sends Dr Rush an introductory letter outlining the particulars of his case 61
- Dr Burton recommends in the highest terms the reading of the Bible to hypochondriac patients like Christopher Smart 62
- Mon homme 65
- Self-Diagnosis 68
- Prognostications of the Good Doctor 69
- By means of torture inicted from pious but superstitious motives by some priests 71
- Dr Rush dreams of his wedlock 72
- Prevent the evils that might arise from a mistake of this kind 73
- The Good Doctor Signs O on the Case 75
- Self-Diagnostic Soliloquy 77
- Pain on a One-to-Ten Scale 79
- Earth Fire Air Water 81
- Ripley s Aquarium 82
- In Each 84
- In the SERT Room 85
- The Day My Son Seized for 27 Minutes I Wished on a Villainous Star 88
- Air Prophecies for the Bride 89
- Given 93
- Not Long Ago 95
- Resilience Trait 96
- What My Father Told Me 97
- Angelic Salutation 98
- Sources 103
- Acknowledgements 104
