A Study Weekend in New York City**
THE ART OF MADNESS**April 27-29, 2012, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Columbus Ave, MacMahon Hall, Room 109.
Madness***a term reintroduced in our times as if it were sorely needed***is not merely a doubling of the coldly clinical psychosis. While clearly-diagnosed psychosis is sequestered in hospitals or is nowadays more often contained and controlled in a private regimen of prescriptions and pills, madness is more public, more fluid, more threatening. It is measured only against the social order that somehow always fails to exclude it. It crops up everywhere. Few of us are psychotic, but we all feel at times that we may be a bit mad. If madness is a disturbance in the Continue reading The Art of Madness at Fordham University
