The article explores the creation of institutions for managing madness and the 'mad' under the First Republic. By focusing specifically on the state of Espírito Santo, it analyzes how the government designed policies for dealing with the mad and asks whether this particular state's experience can validate hypotheses defended for the nation as a whole. The study also aims to demonstrate the comp...

When used effectively, workplace meetings serve as an invaluable opportunity for coworkers to achieve organizational objectives. However, meetings are often regarded as inefficient, unproductive, and a waste of time. Due to meeting attendee frustration, there can be detrimental impact on employee wellbeing. In this paper, we examine the impact of a specific type of meeting behavior, counterprod...

With reference to the intergenerational theorizing of trauma, this article considers the role of transcendence in the substance of our theoretical ideas about psychosis. Arguing against an emphasis on notions of developmental deficit, the author considers the recent work of Davoine and Gaudilliere as a means of questioning some of the paradigmatic assumptions of clinical psychology. It is sugge...

Having just re-read the brochure by Dr. Forbes Winslow on "? Spiritualistic Madness," I cannot refrain from mentioning an instance where I quite believe that a distinct epidemical spiritualistic contagion was present in a room as decided as any miasma at times recognised by sensitive people as the cause of any given fever. I was calling on a friend in Paris, whom I did not know to be a spiritua...

........................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................iv CHAPTER ONE Introduction................................................................1 CHAPTER TWO Uncommon Convergences: Reification in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo..........