Bipolar Expeditions by Martin, Emily -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication 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 Manic Depression as an “Asset” A Mental State as a “Thing” Understanding Mania and Manic Depression in Their Contexts

Chapter Nine: Manic Markets

Links between Individuals and Markets Learning to Be Manic Mania in the Market Emotion in the Market A Few Manic Heroes, Past and Present Manic Affinity A Few Fallen Heroes The Edge

Conclusion: The Bipolar Condition

Race and Gender Revisited Optimizing Moods The End of Madness?

Appendix Notes References Index