Asylum ways of seeing : psychiatric patients, American thought and culture /

Asylum Ways of Seeing uncovers a patient culture within twentieth-century American psychiatric hospitals that did not just imbibe ideas from the outside world, but generated ones of their own. In illuminating seemingly resigned patients in these settings, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Heather (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Temas:
1900-1999
Psychiatric hospital patients > United States > History > 20th century.
Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > History.
Psychiatric hospital patients
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured
  • 2. Biological Psychiatry and the "Happy Drone"
  • 3. Communities, Selfhood, and "Lonely Crowds"
  • 4. From Possessive to Expressive Individualism
  • 5. Liberating "Those Whose Ways Are Different"
  • Epilogue. Withdrawing from the Fray at the End of the Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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