Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine /

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The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Mental illness > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > History.
Mentally ill > Care > History.
Psychiatry > History.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mental Disorders > history
Mental Disorders > therapy
Maladies mentales > Histoire.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > Histoire.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > Histoire.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
HISTORY > General.
Psychiatry
Mentally ill > Care
Mental illness > Treatment
Mental illness
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One: CONFRONTING MADNESS
  • Chapter Two: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
  • Madness and the Israelites
  • The Hellenic World
  • Greek and Roman Physick
  • Greece and Rome and Imperial China: Worlds Compared
  • East and West
  • Chapter Three: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN
  • Successor States
  • Islam and Madness
  • Early Hospitals
  • Demonic Possession and Spiritual Healing
  • Christian Europe
  • Saints and Miracles
  • Literature and Madness
  • Medicine and Madness
  • Chapter Four: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE
  • Fairies, Ghosts, Goblins and Witches
  • Melancholie Madnesse
  • Drawing Boundaries
  • Dramatic Possibilities
  • Madness in Its Infinite Variety
  • Fictions and Fables
  • Madness and Art
  • Fools and Folly
  • Reformation and Counter-Reformation
  • Puzzles and Complexities
  • Chapter Five: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS
  • Changing Responses to Madness
  • Representations of Madness
  • Shutting People Up
  • Novel Predicaments
  • Disciplining the Unruly
  • Kindness and Humanity?
  • Chapter Six: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS
  • Owning a Disease
  • Disordered Nerves
  • Enthusiasm and Spiritual Agony
  • Exorcizing Demons
  • Invisible Forces
  • Chapter Seven: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
  • Nervous or Mad?
  • The Rise of the Empire of Asylumdom
  • Imperial Psychiatry
  • Moral Treatment
  • From Madness to Mental Illness
  • Lumps and Bumps, or Mental Cures for Bodily Afflictions
  • Madness and the Morgue
  • Responsible Guardians
  • Chapter Eight: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR
  • The Disorders of Civilized Existence
  • Waning Confidence
  • Shutting Up the Mad: Pictorial and Literary Protests
  • Gothic Tales
  • Degenerates
  • Artistic Licence
  • Dealing with the Depraved
  • The Roots of Madness
  • Chapter Nine: THE DEMI-FOUS
  • Avoiding the Asylum
  • The Borderlands of Insanity
  • Hysteria on the Stage
  • Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
  • Repression
  • Chapter Ten: DESPERATE REMEDIES
  • The Trials of Total War
  • Shell Shock
  • Fever
  • A Crisis of Legitimacy
  • The Germ of Madness
  • Shock Therapy
  • Targeting Brains
  • Backlash
  • Chapter Eleven: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE
  • The Search for Meaning
  • The Psychoanalytic Movement
  • Freud and the Americans
  • Into Exile
  • Total War and Its Consequences
  • Psychoanalysis, American Style
  • Pathological Mommies
  • Freudian Hegemony
  • Madness and the Movies
  • Chapter Twelve: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION?
  • The End of Asylumdom
  • A Technological Fix?
  • Doomed Institutions
  • The Fate of Those with Chronic Mental Illness
  • The Drugs Revolution
  • The Re-Constitution of Psychiatry
  • Biology Bites Back
  • Epilogue.

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