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Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blackshaw, Gemma (Editor ), Wieber, Sabine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mad objects of fin-de-siècle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp
  • Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller
  • Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley
  • Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie
  • Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward
  • Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber
  • Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw
  • Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities
  • Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton
  • Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger
  • The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.