Riding the Windhorse Manic-Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness

by Corrington, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780761826194
• ISBN10: 076182619X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-07
• Publisher: Hamilton Books

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. Corrington details the latest medical, psychological, and spiritual thinking about bipolar disease; a disorder characterized by extreme mood swings and that is responsible for many untimely deaths each year.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
A Life's Journey and Its Dreamscape	1	(54)
A Life's Journey	8	(32)
A Dreamscape	40	(15)
Body and Soul --- Medical and Psychological Vistas	55	(48)
Medical Vistas	58	(24)
Psychological Vistas	82	(21)
Creativity and Genius in Manic-Depression	103	(64)
Creativity as Manifest in: Products, Processes, and Communities	104	(7)
Genius and the Not Yet	111	(16)
Two Case Studies of Manic-Depressive Genius: Newton and Sri Ramakrishna	127	(40)
Isaac Newton: Cosmology and Divinization	129	(20)
Sri Ramakrishna: Divine Energy	149	(18)
Intimations of Wholeness	167	(26)
Spirituality, Sacred Folds, and Intervals	172	(5)
Creative Distancing and Communal Testing	177	(6)
Individuation and the Spirits	183	(10)
Appendix: My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism	193	(24)
Endnotes	217	(14)
Bibliography	231	(7)
Index -- Names	238	(3)
Index -- Subject	241