Introduction / J. Macnaughton & C. Saunders -- READING MADNESS: LITERATURE IN MEDICINE -- Madness and creativity: communication and excommunication / R. Porter -- Doctors as performance artists / M. O'Donnell -- Ambiguity in attitudes to madness and creativity / R. Downie -- MADNESS IN LITERATURE--MEDIEVAL TO MODERN -- 'Thoughtful maladie': madness and vision in Medieval writing / C. Saunders -- 'Inexpressibly dreadful': depression, confession and language in 18th century Britain / A. Ingram -- Wonders in the deep: Cowper, melancholy and religion / S. Sykes -- 'Mad as a refuge from unbelief': William Blake and the sanity of dissidence / D. Fuller -- 'Why then ile fit you': representations of madness in some Nineteenth and Twentieth-century poems / M. O'Neill -- Madness, medicine and creativity in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain / M. Evans -- WRITING MADNESS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE -- Creative writers and psychopathology: the cultural consolations of 'The wound and the bow' thesis / P. Waugh -- Myth of the artist / A. Alvarez -- 'Writing madness' (dialogue) / A. Byatt & I. Sodre -- Breaking down or breaking out? (dialogue) / P. Barker & A. Piette.
