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Riding the Windhorse
Manic-Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness
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2003
Summary
In this moving account of his struggles with manic-depressive disorder, distinguished philosopher Robert S. Corrington, creator of the school of ecstatic naturalism, presents a compelling argument for rethinking the nature of this malady. Having inherited the disorder from his mother, a gifted actress who struggled with her own form of it until her death, he developed crucial survival strategies that he recommends to other sufferers. In Riding the Windhorse, Corrington details the latest medical, psychological, and spiritual thinking about bipolar disease; a disorder characterized by extreme mood swings and responsible for many untimely deaths each year. Surprisingly, however, manic-depression is also found in almost all forms of genius and Corrington presents two detailed case studies showing this correlation. Riding the Windhorse represents one person's eventual triumph over a potentially crippling disease by demonstrating how creativity and the quest for wholeness can support the erratic flight of the windhorse of manic-depression.
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Copyright year
2003
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-2619-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-2679-4
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
249
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
A. A Life's Journey No access
B. A Dreamscape No access
A. Medical Vistas No access
B. Psychological Vistas No access
A. Creativity as Manifest in: Products, Processes, and Communities No access
B. Genius and the Not Yet No access
c.a. Isaac Newton: Cosmology and Divinization No access
c.b. Sri Ramakrishna: Divine Energy No access
A. Spirituality, Sacred Folds, and Intervals No access
B. Creative Distancing and Communal Testing No access
C. Individuation and the Spirits No access
Appendix: My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism No access Pages 193 - 216
