Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness : the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849 /

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Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldberg, Ann (Ann E.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Eberbach (Asylum) > History > 19th century.
Eberbach (Asylum)
1800-1899
Psychiatry > Germany > History > 19th century.
Mental illness > Germany > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Germany > Sociological aspects.
Psychotherapist and patient > Germany > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Mental Disorders > history
Sexual Behavior > history
Psychiatry > history
Religion and Medicine
Maladies mentales > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Allemagne > Aspect sociologique.
Relations psychothérapeutiques > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Mental illness
Psychiatric hospitals > Sociological aspects
Psychiatry
Psychotherapist and patient
Germany
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum
  • Religious madness in the Vormärz : culture, politics, and the professionalization of psychiatry
  • Religious madness and the formation of patients
  • Medical representations of sexual madness : nymphomania and masturbatory insanity
  • Doctors and patients : the practice(s) of nymphomania
  • Women, sex, and rural life
  • Masturbatory insanity and delinquency
  • Jews and the criminalization of madness.

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