Table of Contents
List of Appendices – List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Deeply in Need of Therapy: Catalepsy, Monomania, and Somnambulism in “Berenice” – Poe and the Phrenologists; or, The Head Masters of “Bumpology” – Method in His “Madness”: The Narrator of “Ligeia” – Sensibility, Phrenology, and Allegory: “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Why Will You Say That I Am Mad? : Schizophrenia in “The Tell-Tale Heart” – The Devil Made Me Do It: Religious Mania in “The Black Cat” – Flooding, Phobias, and Psychosomatics: “The Premature Burial” – “Impulsive Insanity”: “The Imp of the Perverse” and the High Place Phenomenon – Back to Bedlam: The Moral Treatment in “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” – Diagnosing Genius: Dupin and the Bipartite or Tripartite Theory of Mind – Conclusion – Index.
