"Bringing together current science studies concepts and the social history of mental illness, Lisa Hermsen provides an innovative approach to mania as a dynamic, rhetorical and material figure."
— Janet Wirth-Cauchon, Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories
In this wonderfully smart and lively account of mania/bipolar disorder, Lisa Hermsen explores the rhetorical history and multiple realities of a 'mental disorder' haunted by its insistent ties to madness.
— Jackie Orr, Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
"Manic Minds tells a thorough history of mania from a medical and personal perspective. Highly recommended."
— Choice
In this wonderfully smart and lively account of mania/bipolar disorder, Lisa Hermsen explores the rhetorical history and multiple realities of a 'mental disorder' haunted by its insistent ties to madness.
— Jackie Orr, Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
"Manic Minds tells a thorough history of mania from a medical and personal perspective. Highly recommended."
— Choice
"Bringing together current science studies concepts and the social history of mental illness, Lisa Hermsen provides an innovative approach to mania as a dynamic, rhetorical and material figure."
— Janet Wirth-Cauchon, Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories