Bipolar Expeditions-Preface (1#gathering)
2026/1/3 2000-2100 via google meet
本次讀書會的範圍：Preface
導讀人：豪均
出現的人：豪均、伯岡、昱婷、千芸、慕慕、易昌、瑞君
原本預計到p.30，但處理行政事宜停留在preface+p.4
因此下次讀書會會將是p.4-p.30的introduction 骨幹，精彩的詞語爬梳處理，加上伯岡導讀的PART one
- 此書開始寫作時，作者說如同石像鬼一般雙肩棲著般地被看著（medical gaze?）
- 獻給他的學生們→acknowledgement中有詳細的寫作被受幫助的過程
- 無法去脫離是否在寫作過程中受到疾病之疑慮
- manic depression-to the point of psychosis
- Target group at the Humanities Research Institute in Irvine California 1996
- 作者此本民族誌的契機為參加當地的manic depression support groups
- 同時也先前也寫了manic depression and ADHD的文化現象 as acknowledgement
- 先前提到的石像鬼並非帶了兩頂帽子所致
- 同為病人以及作者
- 因為擁有被診斷的資格而夠native points of view
- might provide a route for me (xvi previous second paragraph topic sentence)
- 但group本身的私密需要絕對細膩的保密
- 污名的恐懼（fear of stigma）
- 造成田野工作的工藝（craft）
- taking note, recording
- consider carefully before requesting interviews
- my reason for this are important to clarify
- the stigma against mental illness is so great that my knowing someone’s phone number and address, which I would need to do a lengthy, confidential interview could be threatening.
- lost job and relationship
- the stigma against mental illness is so great that my knowing someone’s phone number and address, which I would need to do a lengthy, confidential interview could be threatening.
- 同為病人以及作者
- Madness(from mental illness) 作為概念使用的代價
- grouping mental phenomena with physical phenomena
- implying optimistically that both have biological causes and potential cures. 彷彿一般生理疾病地樂觀去看待。
- ROB the experience of being mentally ill of its ‘’complex darkness’’
- ‘’Denial of human weight and complexity’’
- 在種族議題上是足以能夠對話。（cross talk種族）
- ‘’Denial of human weight and complexity’’
- grouping mental phenomena with physical phenomena
- Trained to lead support groups for people with manic depression
- 學校裡的社工說NOT APPLY to her students because not able to function in the intellectually demanding environment at Princeton
- manic depression=nonfunctional person
- 學校裡的社工說NOT APPLY to her students because not able to function in the intellectually demanding environment at Princeton
- 此書的目標是Broader cultural and historical context
- 但書是非反精神醫學
- disorder帶來的是secrecy and fear of collective responsibility,
- NOT HANDBOOK
- AIm to explore the daily experience of those who , for better or worse, are partipating in the world that psychopharmochology has opened up
- ‘’Crazy’’ 在‘’gay’’文化出櫃歷程是否能夠可行？（cross talk性別）
- 理性與非理性的分界並非武斷，如同性別spectrum
- 作者此本民族誌的契機為參加當地的manic depression support groups
Introduction
- Productivity=manic behavior=valuable human resource in 1996-
Manic CEO=good=contagious to success
- but also need treatment=bad signs of weakness
- Too often, the depressive lows swallow up a person’s live
- but also need treatment=bad signs of weakness
此書中作者將會探索美國關於mania and manic depress的文化理解以及實作（cultural understanding and practices）
- 涉及對於生命、死亡、權力（power）、弱點以及能與不能，與心智（mind）和身體(body)，在此範疇內如何融合
- 以及如何因種族、族群而異
- 去理解當代精神醫學以及神經醫學如何在這樣的歷史以及文化底下創造科學的、理性的真實
- 涉及對於生命、死亡、權力（power）、弱點以及能與不能，與心智（mind）和身體(body)，在此範疇內如何融合
GQ Ted turner as man of the year ‘’help of his manic energy’’
- Howard Dean=fear disgust and revulsion
- why?
作者的manic depression主觀經驗認為不能只當作一種資產（asset）
- question of rationality and academic abilities
- also a signal of special creativity
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行政事宜
A. 時間
Time Gap:兩個禮拜到一個月。
下次讀書會：
1/17 1900不不不讀書會Introduction+Part one 導讀人豪均、伯岡 1月17日 星期六 · 下午7時 - 8 如何加入 Google Meet 會議 視訊通話連結：https://meet.google.com/vbi-jwqt-cgr
B. 進行方式
-自我介紹（每次uptodate各自的最近狀況）
-google meet 穿插 實體讀書會（或許？大家分別在不同地區，感覺還是需要實體碰頭）
C.記錄形式
-持續用blogger
-Notion on deck 目前的主要平台
-聽打員的存在與否？
