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Emotions and health, 1200-1700

Table of Contents: “…Solomon -- A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan -- Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowaland -- Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk.…”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7: Ecstasies of Pain and Near-Death Experiences -- Bob Flanagan: Super-Masochist -- The Nature of Pain -- Ritualistic Violence in Music and Dance -- Sadomasochism -- Playing with Death and Resurrection -- To Humiliate and to be Humiliated -- Playing with Death Through Starving, Purging, and Mutilating the Self -- Initiation into the Tribe -- Body Modifications -- Needle Freaks, Piercing Junkies, and Tattoo Addicts -- Our Cultural Obsession with Skin -- The Tribe of Lambs Who Lay Down for the Slaughter -- Bodily Self-Harm, Body Modifications, and Suicidality -- Beware the Gurus and Shamans of Pain -- Raellyn Gallina, Queen of Blood Sports -- Fakir Musafar -- Chapter 8: Religious Ecstasies -- Sri Ramakrishna's Ecstasies -- Sacred Erotica and Ecstatic Seizures -- Ecstatic Stigmatics and Holy Anorexics -- Born-Again Ecstasies -- Speaking Tongues and Snake Handling Ecstasies -- The Spiritual Ecstasies of Generations X and Y -- The Oceanic Experience: Riding the Waves or Going Under? …”
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