Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine
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Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine
Thames & Hudson, 2016
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"First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Thames & Hudson Ltd"--T.p. verso
"First paperback edition 2016"-- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-439) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our attempts to understand and treat it.
Table of Contents
Endorsements * 1. Confronting Madness * 2. Madness in the Ancient World * 3. The Darkness and the Dawn * 4. Melancholie and Madnesse * 5. Madhouses and Mad- Doctors * 6. Nerves and Nervousness * 7. The Great Confinement * 8. Degeneration and Despair * 9. The Demi-Fous * 10. Desperate Remedies * 11. A Meaningful Interlude * 12. A Psychiatric Revolution?
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