Madness and Democracy /

How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gauchet, Marcel
Other Authors: Porter, Catherine, Swain, Gladys
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:New French Thought Series.
Subjects:
Hospitals, Psychiatric.
Mental Disorders > therapy.
Mental illness > Social aspects.
Control (Psychology)
Psychiatric hospital care.
Psychotherapy > Methods.
Power, Psychological
Maladies mentales > Aspect social.
Contrôle (Psychologie)
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Soins.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Mental illness > Social aspects
Psychiatric hospital care
Psychotherapy
Methods (Music)
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