Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam

by Stefania Pandolfo

Book Overview

Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo's unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of contemporary patients and therapists in Morocco, Knot of the Soul offers both an ethnographic journey through madness and contemporary formations of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022646508X
• ISBN13: 9780226465081
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"