Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism

Nicolas Pierre Boileau is Senior Lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, France. 

1 The Function of Symptoms of 'Mental Health': How Literature Is Situated in the Debate Between Cure and Care.-Part I Doctors' Misdiagnoses: Symptoms, Meaning and Function.-2 Symptomatic Silence: Situating the Subject in Mrs Dalloway.-3 Meaning and Interpretation: The Failure of the Psychiatric Method in Asylum by Patrick McGrath.-4 From Physical Symptoms to Subjective Creations in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy.-Part II The Symptom and the Body: Discreet Signs of Psychological Disorders.-5 The Body as Dangerous Jouissance in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.-6 AIDS, Manic-Depression and the Symptoms of the 1980s in The Line of Beauty.-Part III Voices, Contemporary Symptoms and SocialCohesion.-7 Voices, Silence and the Body: Cusk's Modernist Explorations of Symptomatic Encounters in the OutlineTrilogy (2014-2018).-8 Ali Smith's Voices: Everyone Is Delirious