Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
Cover -- Bipolar Expeditions -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedicated For my students -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Ethnographic Ways and Means -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Manic Depression in America -- Rational and Irrational -- Brains and Genes -- The Drug Factor -- A Short History of Manic Depression -- Manic Depression in Culture -- Research Methods -- PART ONE -- Manic Depression as Experience -- CHAPTER ONE -- Personhood and Emotion -- What Are Moods? -- Mood and Motivation -- Our Manic Affinity -- CHAPTER TWO -- Performing the "Rationality" of "Irrationality" -- Patients' Rationality: Double Bookkeeping -- Doctors' Rationality: A Closed Circle -- The Bipolar Experience: Multiplicity -- The Bipolar Experience: Interruption -- Sounding a Second Voice -- Style and Manic Performances -- CHAPTER THREE -- Managing Mania and Depression -- CHAPTER FOUR -- I Now Pronounce You Manic Depressive -- 1. I'm in a Hole -- 2. I Thought I Was Normal When I Was Speedy -- 3. What Is the Diagnosis? -- 4. Who Is Manic? -- 5. What Is Bipolar 2b? -- 6. I Ain't Gonna Mess with It Backwards -- 7. Maybe He Is a Normal Variant -- 8. I'm a Twenty-Year-Old College Student with a 3.75 GPA and I Am Not Crazy -- Subjection and Rationality -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Inside the Diagnosis -- DSM Categories as "Text-Atoms" -- The Work of Support Groups -- Performativity, Intention, and Diagnosis -- CHAPTER SIX -- Pharmaceutical Personalities -- Marketing a Psychotropic Drug -- The Rationality of Consumers -- Living with Drugs -- PART TWO -- Mania as a Resource -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- Taking the Measure of Moods and Motivations -- Mood Hygiene -- Evading Mood Charts -- From Temperate to Hot -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Revaluing Mania -- Sociality and Conformity -- Manic Depression and Creativity Today -- Gender and Manic Depression -- Race and Manic Depression