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)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Editors' Note; Introduction; Abstract I: The Moment of Origin; Part One: Advent, Apotheosis, and Failure of the Asylum Establishment; Abstract II; Chapter I: La Salpêtrière, or The Double Birth of the Asylum; Chapter II: The Politics of the Asylum; Chapter III: Impossible Power; Chapter IV: A Socializing Machine; Abstract III: Crisis, Agony, and Repetition; Abstract IV: Esquirol at La Salpêtrière; Part Two: The Passions as a Sketch of a General Theory of Mental Alienation; Abstract V: Esqirol in 1805; Abstract VI: The Clinical Resolution.
  • Abstract VII: Between the Will to Madness and Brain LesionsAbstract VIII: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think (Beginning); Chapter V: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think; Chapter VI: Reducing Insanity: The Mirror of Alterity; Abstract IX: Approaches to Healing; How to Speak to the Insane; Chapter VII: The Society of Individuals and the Institution of Speech; Chapter VIII: The Conquest of Dissymmetry; Chapter IX: Openings and Aporia of Moral Treatment; Epilogue: Social Divide, Division of the Subject, Mad Rupture; Notes; List of Works Cited; Index.

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