On Mental Health

"We know where to find the mad, who to talk to about them (psychiatrists, geneticists, neurobiologists, psychoanalysts, chemists, anthropologists, historians, etc.). But where can we go to find the sane? What buildings do they live in? What do they wear? What do they look like and how do we recognize them? The difference Do they have distinguishable characteristics, distinguishable signs, common attitudes? Smart people, whoever and wherever they are, have never received the attention or concern they deserve. We invented them - just as we invented the concept of smarts altogether - but we never could or did not want to define them. ."

Although there is a huge literature on insanity, little has been thought and written about sanity. We often have strong judgments and strange feelings about madness, but when it comes to sanity, our minds are quite confused. What sanity corresponds to has never been fully revealed, and in the last three hundred years it has not been possible to go beyond defining it as "the opposite of madness". Adam Philips, one of the leading psychoanalysts of the age, wanders the corridors not only of psychiatry but also of literature, history, anthropology and philosophy, challenging the historical imbalance between these two concepts and inviting us to think about sanity. It offers a realistic but hopeful analysis of the possibilities of the intelligent subject in the modern world in a wide range of different stages of life and relationship styles.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 176

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish