Each March, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament attracts tens of millions of viewers, a billion dollars in revenue, and millions of pool brackets from fans attempting to predict the tournament outcome. Previous studies have examined March Madness pools, but no prior work gives an in-depth exploratory analysis of a large-scale bracket dataset. We present a novel dataset of over 200,000 brackets...

Resenha do livro Arctic Madness: The Anthropology of a Delusion, de Pierre Déléage, publicada em 2020.

WE use the term "domestic" and its cognates in at least two very different contexts. On the one hand, there is the contrast between the wild and the tame: the sense in which we refer to animals as "domesticated". And on the other hand, there is the reference to the private familial sphere, the environment of the home and one's intimate circle: domestic as contrasted with public life. In this pa...

In this paper the Romantic ballet Giselle (1841) is used as a case study through which to examine the themes of madness and death. Giselle is a heartrending story of the intertwining of love and death. It is argued that Giselle is an evocative example of narratives of hysteria and suicide, and literature in the field of medical history is drawn upon to demonstrate the relations between the cult...

If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to ...

, rs-Laing and Esterson describe an investigation of 11 patients suffering from ronic or acute and episodic schizophrenia, and of their families. Patients and p-ttiily members were interviewed both separately and together, in various combina-l0ns. The number of interviews per case varied considerably (between 13 and 44), jnd excerpts from them, as well as from the case records, are used to demo...

To the Editor: " Myxedema madness " is a severe, complicated form of psychosis due to significant hypothyroidism. Although literature exists illustrating psychiatric symptoms (eg, depression , lethargy) as a result of hypothyroidism, psychosis associated with hypothyroidism is often overlooked. Additionally, published literature varies on the nature of psychotic symptoms present (eg, Capgras sy...

philosophical works already discussed. This can be seen in the following excerpt from Cox's work: Whatever agitates the mind intensely, whatever occupies it exclusively, always hazards its faculties, inducing a state favourable to the attack of mental disease. Riveted attention to one train of thought, is a very frequent source of insanity; the first effects of this dangerous practice are obvio...

At the very start of a chapter on hysteria in her book From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism, Patricia Elliot cites Nietzsche’s “truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions”. This paper follows this connection between hysteria and the work of Nietzsche. This paper will highlight how a Lacanian interpretation of hysteria can elucidate...