Try "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley." It's widely available in
paperback, and your students are _guaranteed_ to debate whether he was sane
or a "madman."
Or, if you want to _really_ get them going, try "Memories, Dreams,
Reflections" the autobiography of Carl Jung! :)
Rick
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> Behalf Of Marjorie S. Hardy - Psychology
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> Subject: biography needed
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> For a course I'll be teaching next fall (a first year seminar on the
> meanings of madness), we'll be discussing the distinction between
> normality and abnormality. The students will be reading a number of
> biographies/autobiographies for the other topics, and I wanted to assign
> one for this topic as well. I'm looking for an interesting biography/
> autobiography about an individual whose eccentricities raise the question,
> "Is there really anything wrong with this person?" Any ideas out there?
>
