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Portraits of the insane : ThéodoreGéricault and the subject of psychotherapy /

In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snell, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Karnac, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One Illustrations
  • ch. Two canvases unrolled
  • ch. Three Gericault, a biographical sketch
  • ch. Four Madness in modernity, 1656
  • 1789
  • ch. Five Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum
  • ch. Six new account of the human: responses to Pinel's Traite
  • ch. Seven Golden Age of alienism
  • ch. Eight Gericault and the alienists
  • ch. Nine History painter
  • ch. Ten Surplus and the limits of interpretation.