Encountering crises of the mind : madness, culture and society, 1200s-1900s

Author(s)

• Laine-Frigren, Tuomas
• Eilola, Jari
• Hokkanen, Markku

Bibliographic Information

Encountering crises of the mind : madness, culture and society, 1200s-1900s

edited by Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Jari Eilola, Markku Hokkanen

（History of science and medicine library, v. 57）

Brill, c2019

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Mental health and madness have been challenging topics for historians. The field has been marked by tension between the study of power, expertise and institutional control of insanity, and the study of patient experiences. This collection contributes to the ongoing discussion on how historians encounter mental 'crises'. It deals with diagnoses, treatments, experiences and institutions largely outside the mainstream historiography of madness - in what might be described as its peripheries and borderlands (from medieval Europe to Cold War Hungary, from the Atlantic slave coasts to Indian princely states, and to the Nordic countries). The chapters highlight many contests and multiple stakeholders involved in dealing with mental suffering, and the importance of religion, lay perceptions and emotions in crises of mind. Contributors are Jari Eilola, Waltraud Ernst, Anssi Halmesvirta, Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja, Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Susanna Niiranen, Anu Rissanen, Kirsi Tuohela, and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Sufferers, Specialists, Spaces and Society: Historical Approaches to Crises of the Mind Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Markku Hokkanen and Jari Eilola PART 1: Preclinical Definitions of Madness 2 Medical Knowledge of Mental Disorders and Their Cure in Latin and Vernacular Culture in Later Medieval Europe Susanna Niiranen 3 Defining and Treating Madness in Local Communities of Early Modern Finland Jari Eilola 4 Melancholy, Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Southern Atlantic World Kalle Kananoja PART 2: Modernisation and Crises of Mind: Changing Spaces, Voices and Sources 5 Hospitalised: Patients' Voices in 19th-Century Finnish Newspapers Kirsi Tuohela 6 Despair in Finnish: Consultation by Correspondence in Fin-de-Siecle Finland Anssi Halmesvirta 7 In the Gray Area: Patient Records, Somatic Treatments and the History of Psychiatry in Denmark, 1936-1956 Jesper Vaczy Kragh 8 Treatment and Rehabilitation: Patients at Work in Finnish Mental Institutions Anu Rissanen part 3: Encountering Madness in the Peripheries 9 Emotionally Neglected or Deviant? Treating Childhood Neuroses in Communist Hungary during the Early 1960s Tuomas Laine-Frigren 10 Psychiatry at the Periphery: the Case of Princely India, c. 1830-1900 Waltraud Ernst 11 'Madness', Emotions and Loss of Control in a Colonial Frontier: Methodological Challenges of Crises of Mind Markku Hokkanen Index

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Details

• NCID: BB27047629
• ISBN:
  • 9789004308527
• LCCN: 2018039190
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 304 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA790.5
  • NLM : WM 11.1
  • DC23 : 362.2
• Subject Headings:
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- history
  • MESH : Mental Disorders -- therapy
  • MESH : Patients -- psychology
  • MESH : Social Conditions -- history
  • MESH : History, Medieval
  • MESH : History, Early Modern 1451-1600
  • MESH : History, Modern 1601-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA80747292