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MUCH MADNESS IS DIVINEST SENSE
Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering
ISBN/Prod. Code:
978-0-8298-1570-2
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KATHLEEN J.
GREIDER
, Author
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Canada
(Reg. $ 27.00)
$ 21.60
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6 X 9
CLOTH WITH JACKET
352 PP
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Much Madness is Divinest Sense is, says Greider, “a gateway into the poignancy and self-power of the widespread struggle with madness and other forms of emotional anguish.” She believes that those who produce accounts of their struggle with “madness” or mental illness of various types, whether in themselves or someone they love, assert on the basis of their experience that there is sometimes “divinest sense” in madness — something of ultimate value. This book respectfully engages that assertion and seeks to understand it.
Readers are invited to “listen in” on hundreds of memories of mental illness as Greider amplifies the spiritual wisdom found there, on: surviving severe emotional suffering alone and with others; recognizing healing when curing isn’t an option; caring for ourselves and others when our hearts and minds are broken; and understanding that sometimes our illness comes from the “madness” of the societies we have built.
Some of the memoirists include: Karen Armstrong, Stewart Govig, Albert Hsu, Karen Redfield Jamison, Martha Manning, Parker Palmer, Lizzie Simon, and Lauren Slater.
Memoirs of mental illness contain spiritual wisdom useful for all people in the experience of severe emotional suffering.
Available in November 2007
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