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	Ship of Fools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship of fools, depicted in a 1549 German woodcut
		Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff), a 1494 satire by Sebastian Brant
		Ship of Fools, a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ship_of_Fools (354 words)

	International Center for Journalists
		Mental disorders place life itself at risk: they are associated with about 870,000 suicides recorded every year in the world, an average of three deaths every two minutes.
		As one now knows how mental disorders can progress, preventive actions could be carried out, particularly with the more vulnerable children and their families, to alleviate the impact of the sources of stress.
		And also from those days was the ship of fools, as they called the boats that would circulate amongst the European ports, picking up madmen, prostitutes, hoboes and criminals, to be left adrift afterwards until they died or were thrown into the sea.
	www.icfj.org /salud/fioravanti3-eng.html (2750 words)

	Partners in Time: Glossary
		A national organization for people with mental retardation, The Arc was one of the first parent-led organizations to be created as part of the Parent Movement and continues to be a leading advocate for the rights of all people with mental retardation, including access to free appropriate, inclusive education and full participation.
		Mental retardation is a state of functioning that begins in childhood and is characterized by limitation in both intelligence and adaptive skills.
		Mental retardation reflects the "fit" between the capabilities of individuals and the structure and expectations of their environment.
	www.partnersinpolicymaking.com /history/glossary.html (4489 words)

	News 8 Austin \| 24 Hour Local News \| TOP STORIES
		Mental health advocates said a lack of education about mental illnesses causes a stigma in society toward people who suffer from mental disorders.
		Mental health advocates said the media is often responsible for misconceptions about people with mental illness.
		If folks with a mental illness are treated, they are less violent than the general public," Lynn Lasky, president and CEO of the Mental Health Association in Texas, said.
	www.news8austin.com /content/top_stories/?ArID=94325 (733 words)

	The Smoky Mountain News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Recently, Tipper Gore noted that mental illness was the “last great stigma of the 20th century” -- a statement that may prove to be a rallying call for a furtive and guilt-ridden multitude...
		Maxine Hong Kingston gives a poignant description of the mental disintegration of a Chinese woman (“The Woman Warrior”); Kate Millett’s “The Loony Bin Trip” testifies to her own experience in a mental hospital where the abundance of drugs kept the patients in a state of drugged compliance.
		Lauren Slater, a gifted writer about mental illness, recounts her own experience with obsessive-compulsive behavior and her gradual disillusionment with Prozac, a skepticism that is shared by Merin Danquah, a fl dancer who suffers from bouts with a depression that “is not fl” but vividly colorful and blinding.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/10_00/10_04_00/books_carden.shtml (967 words)

	IslamonLine.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For instance, a new kind of "mental illness" emerged in the past twenty years, with the increase of conversions to Islam or the rediscover of Islam by the youth of Muslim societies.
		I don't know why in modern world, they marginalized people with mental illnesses, and as a result of the same civilization, as is mentioned in the first question and answer, mental disorders are growing in numbers.
		Mental health and addictions are certainly related, and one finds a great deal of addictive behavior in modern consumer societies, addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, TV, the internet, practically anything, people seem addicted.
	www.islamonline.net /livedialogue/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=z6eb88 (4067 words)

	The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper
		The "fools," as the Renaissance men called the unfortunate souls, were boarded on ships and entrusted to the care of the mariners on an endless sea voyage.
		According to data included in the Health Ministry's National Programme of Mental Health, in 1992 there were 58,119 new cases of mental illness registered, while in 2000 the number of new cases rose to 66,346; and in 2002, as many as 76,915 new cases were registered.
		Mental problems are the third most frequent reason behind physical disability, and five diseases of the mind are among the 10 illnesses that most burden society.
	www.slovakspectator.sk /clanok-17500.html (1035 words)

	An Alternative Psychobiological View on Mental Illness
		Of course it is perfectly legal to object that some etiological factors and symptoms of mental illness can be rather clearly defined and are by no means part of any causal cycle.
		Mental deviation is a side-effect of advantageous social and intellectual human traits.
		The imaginary ship of fools symbolizes the idiots sent away by boat but these boats were also considered to be pilgrims' ships.
	www.xs4all.nl /~helfrich/psycho/psycho1.html (3895 words)

	State v. Breakiron, 108 N.J. 591 (1987)
		Thus, negating the mental state for murder by producing evidence of mental disease or defect does not prohibit a conviction for manslaughter provided the essential elements of that crime are present.
		Whether or not mental disease or defect is established, the State always bears the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt the essential mental elements of the crime charged.
		According to that Statement, the mental disease or defect "must be of such a nature as to preclude the actor from knowing the nature and quality of the act or that what he was doing was wrong." The State, however, does not argue that the Legislature has in fact abolished this defense.
	wings.buffalo.edu /law/bclc/web/njbreakiron.html (7951 words)

	Residential Opportunities, Inc. - Developmental Disabilities Throughout History
		In many places, the hospitals were converted leper colonies where those with mental retardation as well as those with mental illness or severe physical disabilities were incarcerated alongside thieves, robbers, and violent criminals.
		Because mental retardation and mental illness were seen by Western society as problems caused by moral deficiencies, the growth of acceptance of the religious concept of the “Chain of Being” served to make conditions more difficult for people with such conditions.
		By 1900, most of these schools were supplanted by hospitals that recognized the medical causes of mental retardation and other developmental disabilities, but which considered people with these conditions as “sick and incurable.” The goal of education was replaced with the goal of segregating people with disabilities from society, usually for their protection.
	www.residentialopportunities.org /disabilities-history.htm (3395 words)

	"Digging Archaeology: Sources of Foucault's Historiography" by Christopher D. Green
		, the analysis of the rise mental hospital need not be grounded in the same beliefs and practices as those on which the analysis of the rise of the human sciences, or of the rise of the prison, are based.
		Foucault and his followers have an ideological axe to grind: It is important to the structuralist view that social behavior accord with theoretical patterns of symbolism, and it is important to the scapegoat theory of mental illness that it be demonstrated dramatically.
		Such attempts usually consisted of the declaration (often unsupported) that the physiological changes underlying the occasioning of illness are merely quantitative changes, not the introduction of qualitatively new phenomena.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000054/00/digarch2.htm (7097 words)

	Introduction : Out of Her Mind
		There were tales from the Middle Ages, detailing how those suffering from mental illness were considered lepers and sent away to remote countrysides or warehoused on a "Ship of Fools." Other stories spoke of public whippings and barred windows that allowed passers-by to observe mad men and women shackled by chains.
		For women whose mental illnesses defied medical doctrine, doctors increasingly prescribed massive surges of electrical currents delivered to the brain,-Iarge doses of insulin to induce convulsions, or, for seemingly hopeless cases, a surgical operation to sever nerve pathways in the frontal lobes of the cerebrum.
		By the time I closed in on the I latter part of the twentieth century, it was clear that mental illness had become inextricably tied to a vast array of prescription drugs.
	www.enotalone.com /article/4889.html (2545 words)

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		She had terrible manic depression and was known to strip off all her clothes in a public garden or disappear in a strange city for a few days to be found crying in an alley.
		She had a mental breakdown while filming the movie Elephant Walk and had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor at the last minute.
		An interesting factoid in the biography was that she was going through one of her manic episodes while filming Ship of Fools, and in the scene where she beats Lee Marvin, she was apparently REALLY beating him.
	redbaron.blogdrive.com /comments?id=4 (373 words)

	Madness and Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship of fools in the 15th century is a literary version of one such exclusionary practice, the practice of sending mad people away in ships.
		In the 18th century, madness came to be seen as the obverse of Reason, that is, as having lost what made them human and become animal-like and therefore treated as such.
		It is not before 19th century that madness became mental illness that should be cured, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madness_and_Civilization (480 words)

	The Holy Fool \| CounterOrder.com
		Religious people are not all fools, although the vast majority excels at it, they just have an inborn weakness that predisposes them to slavishly adopt the facile beliefs surrounding them - especially when it comes with the imprimatur of authority.
		Religious beliefs should be placed in the same class as mental sickness or any other serious psychological disorder that degrades the quality of life and the individuals’ ability to deal with reality.
		Because humans have a conscious awareness of reality they also have another need, which is a sense of identity, or to put it another way, a social context with which to place themselves in relation to other persons and objects in time and space.
	www.counterorder.com /belief.html (4679 words)

	Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - William W. Eaton, Ph.D.
		human folly, as in his The Cure of Folly and his Ship of Fools; and chaos at the level of society, as in his Temptation of St. Anthony, Garden of Earthly Delights, and other paintings with legions of otherworldly monsters and grotesque half-human forms.
		There appear in Mad Meg the armies of mon-sters, the conflagrations, and the battles inspired by the chaos of Bosch; the same ship from Bosch's Ship of Fools is in the distance, as well as an upturned funnel, which appeared in The Cure of Folly.
		This painting is of one of the Dancing Manias of the middle ages, at Molenbeek, which occurred and was observed, and drawn in sketch form by Breughel in 1564, and later painted by his son.
	www.jhsph.edu /~f-eaton/wwe/excerpt.html (1188 words)

	Men's Mental Health - factsheet published by MIND
		This factsheet aims to address general mental health issues which are relevant to all men in Britain, and to look at specific issues which are relevant to particular groups of men.
		Most forms of mental distress are not specific to one gender, however, different issues can arise for the different genders.
		Available data shows that for most illnesses men are less likely than women to consult their general practitioners.
	www.angryharry.com /remindfactsheet.htm (4699 words)

	The religion of Stanley Kramer, Producer/Director
		In [Stanley Kramer's movie] Pressure Point, as we'll see later, these two issues of mental illness and imprisonment are fused: the deranged character played by Bobby Darin manifests his paranoi by joining the American Nazi party and by blaming Jews and fls for his own insufficiencies.
		Ship of Fools is, a you can see, a floating Grand Hotel.
		The major problem with Mann's script [for Ship of Fools], so gravid with cliches that it nearly sinks the Vera, is that the ironies are quaintly based on a knowing hindsight.
	www.adherents.com /people/pk/Stanley_Kramer.html (2119 words)

	The Bulletin Online - Bullpen 07/22/05 Tomfoolery
		Like all too many celebrities, Cruise is a member of the so-called Church of Scientology (CoS), a dangerous, little-understood mind control cult that promises self-fulfillment, mental peace and clarity, financial success, cures of everything from blindness to homosexuality, and even the restoration of long-dormant godlike powers.
		The CoS was founded in the 1950’s by L. Ron Hubbard, a modestly successful science fiction writer and small-time grifter with a history of mental illness, bigamy, and spousal abuse.
		With the help of insect-like psychiatrists, Xenu had millions of his subjects paralyzed with chemicals and shipped to Earth, where their bodies were stacked up around huge volcanoes.
	www.thebulletin.com /archives/2005/july/bullpen0722.htm (785 words)

	Behavioral Axiology & Leon Pomeroy, PhD introduce the "know thyself" tool.
		For our Bear, Rabbit and Fox the cognitive flow is from B to A, A to B, and B to C reflecting the fact that A doesn’t cause C for cognitive processing by B concerning A produces C. I judge this to be a clear assertion of advanced ABCs and so we can move on.
		Stressful and distressful reactions to trauma are a source of wear and tear on the ship of being and becoming.
		The laws of “The excluded middle,” and “Non-contingent worth” at the S-2 level of B-processing in the mind need to be understood by every soldier along with the cognitive distortions of awfulizing and musterbation.
	www.e-valuemetrics.com (6292 words)

	Mental Health Care \| Personal stories
		There is stigma, or varieties of social aversion attached to both those with mental health problems and their carers.
		In our medieval past, ‘madmen’ and ‘madwomen’ were placed on board a ship known as the ‘Ship of Fools’ on the river Rhine and abandoned.
		In my opinion the answer is painfully simple: endure those who would foist the ‘Ship of Fools’ obscenity on us and rejoice in those who loathe mental illness but embrace those who experience it and their carers.
	www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk /carersstories/expanded/?id=4 (395 words)

	Terence McKenna - Wetlands Talk - Robert Anton Wilson Online Library
		What we've shipped for is not a voyage of discovery, it's more like a ship of fools.
		Anybody who tells you they have a clue as to what's happening should be suspect for mental illness and delusions of grandeur.
		The thought is (and I haven't said this yet but this is the conclusion from all of this): culture is an effort to satisfy this weird desire human beings have to close off experience, to live with closure, to force closure.
	www.deepleafproductions.com /wilsonlibrary/texts/mckenna-wetlands.html (5203 words)

	Psychological Images in Publications--M
		Mental hospital, several 18th and 19th century drawings of patients.
		Mental illness, 64 19th century photographs of mental hospital patients.
		Mental illness, two drawings of results of masturbation and one of restraining apparatus (1830, 1811)
	www.apa.org /archives/psyimagem.html (1522 words)

	Commentary, February 15, 2002 — The Vatican Declares on Illness, Monty Python is Blamed, John Edward (Again?), ...
		Commentary, February 15, 2002 — The Vatican Declares on Illness, Monty Python is Blamed, John Edward (Again?), Astrology Business/Business Astrology in Denmark, Moon Madness Revisited, A Dedicated Teacher Is Betrayed, And Part One of the Russian Psychic Test.....
		The Vatican Declares on Illness, Monty Python is Blamed, John Edward (Again?), Astrology Business/Business Astrology in Denmark, Moon Madness Revisited, A Dedicated Teacher Is Betrayed, And Part One of the Russian Psychic Test.....
		Some wreckage from the ship was recovered, it was properly decided that the presumptive heir to the baronetcy was lost at sea, and would not be returning.
	www.randi.org /jr/021502.html (6377 words)

	Vivien Leigh Part II
		In her last movie appearance, for Ship of Fools(1965) Vivien was in weak mental condition, but at the top of her professional form.
		Those close to her mourned a kind woman who never stopped apologizing for the mental illness that haunted her and who always charmed people back to her side in the end.
		She was a huge talent, and her two legendary roles are the heights of a fine body of work.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/70937/4 (463 words)

	SparkNotes: Madness and Civilization: Important Themes, Ideas, and Arguments
		In the modern period, however, unreason is pushed further beneath the surface of society, and is understandable only through certain artists; madness on the other hand, becomes mental illness, and is treated and controlled by medical and psychiatric practices.
		Madness in the Renaissance was an experience that was integrated into the rest of the world, whereas by the nineteenth century it had become known as a moral and mental disease.
		From the contrasting images of leprosy and the Ship of Fools at the beginning of the work onwards, Madness and Civilization is structured around a series of conceits and paradoxes.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/madnessandciv/themes.html (752 words)

	Foucault - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		Foucault enthusiastically participated in the gay culture in San Francisco, particularly in the SandM culture — it is suspected that it was here that he contracted HIV, in the days before the disease was described as such.
		Foucault died of an AIDS-related illness in Paris June 26th, 1984.
		In the eighteenth century, madness came to be seen as the obverse of Reason, and, finally, in the nineteenth century as mental illness.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Foucault (4838 words)

	Amazon.com: House of Fools: DVD: Yuliya Vysotskaya,Yevgeni Mironov,Sultan Islamov,Stanislav Varkki,Yelena Fomina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It takes place during the Russian-Chechen war, but House of Fools has the aura of the 1960s about it, specifically the anti-war picture of the King of Hearts variety.
		Some critics feel as if she did not truly blossom into the role or succeed in giving it the depth it required; these are obviously some of the most demanding people on the planet, as I don't think any actress could have given a better performance than Vysotsky delivered in this film.
		The beautiful images, sophisticated expression of mental illness without making it too depressing, and the perfect timing of story development make this film one of the best I have seen.
	www.amazon.com /House-Fools-Yuliya-Vysotskaya/dp/B0000C2IQA (2550 words)

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