Responding to Men in Crisis

This book is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness.

Brian Taylor has been an elementary school teacher in the Oceanside Unified School District for 32 years. He enjoyed writing stories beginning at the age of 10 and had always hoped to become an author at some point. Brian has always encouraged his students from every class to use their imagination to write their own stories.

Preface, Acknowledgements, PART I. Introduction, 1. Approaching the politics of complexity, 2. Why postmodernism? Conceptualising the politics of complexity, PART II. Four biographical sketches, 3. Genealogy and biography: how we become who we are, 4. Behold in me the tyrant of Turin! Nietzsche, madness and postmodernism, 5. The scream of life itself? Language and power in the life of Antonin Artaud, 6. Deconstructing sovereignty: the post-revolutionary toolbox of Michel Foucault, 7. Like a marble guest: the nervous illness of Daniel Paul Schreber, PART III. Some contemporary debates, 8. Politics and experience: engaging with complex subjectivity, 9. Masculinities and risk: negotiating the politics of complexity, 10. Reconstructing men's lives: power/knowledge, personal recovery and social transformation, Notes, Bibliography, Index