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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 wont let gothese are some of the traits we associate with madness Today mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason Madness in Civilization traces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat itBeautifully illustrated throughout Madness in Civilization takes readers from antiquity to today painting a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to the seemingly irrational psychotic and insane From the Bible to Sigmund Freud from exorcism to mesmerism from Bedlam to Victorian asylums from the theory of humors to modern pharmacology the book explores the manifestations and meanings of madness its challenges and consequences and our varied responses to it It also looks at how insanity has haunted the imaginations of artists and writers and describes the profound influence it has had on the arts from drama opera and the novel to drawing painting and sculptureWritten by one of the worlds preeminent historians of psychiatry Madness in Civilization is a panoramic history of the human encounter with unreason
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In this classic account of madness Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II Madness and Civilization Foucaults first book and his finest accomplishment will change the way in which you think about society Evoking shock pity and fascination it might also make you question the way you think about yourself
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In the 1960s and 1970s a popular diagnosis for Americas problems was that society was becoming a madhouse In this intellectual and cultural history Michael E Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions psychiatrists were agents of repression asylums were gulags for societys undesirables and mental illness was a concept with no medical basisMadness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal illsfrom dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War racism and sexismwere at the root of mental illness Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors movements He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical social and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theoriespart of the reaction to the perceived excesses and selfabsorptions of the 1960seffectively distorted them into caricatures Throughout Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family the nature of the self and the prospects for and limits of social change nbspThe first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged Madness Is Civilization casts new light on the politics of the postwar era
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From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry clinical psychology and psychotherapy but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies minds and soulsGreg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings from ancient times to the present that includes Hippocrates Julian of Norwichs Revelations of Divine Love penned in the 1390s Dorothea Dix Aaron T Beck Carl Rogers and others culled from religious texts clinical case studies memoirs academic lectures hospital and government records legal and medical treatises and art collections Incorporating historical experiences of medical practitioners and those deemed mentally ill From Madness to Mental Health also includes an updated bibliography of firstperson narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A Hornstein
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From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry clinical psychology and psychotherapy but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies minds and soulsGreg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings from ancient times to the present that includes Hippocrates Julian of Norwichs Revelations of Divine Love penned in the 1390s Dorothea Dix Aaron T Beck Carl Rogers and others culled from religious texts clinical case studies memoirs academic lectures hospital and government records legal and medical treatises and art collections Incorporating historical experiences of medical practitioners and those deemed mentally ill From Madness to Mental Health also includes an updated bibliography of firstperson narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A Hornstein
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In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets to the point when these people began to be considered a threat asylums were built for the first time and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity
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Ten Years of Madness is a groundbreaking book that draws some parallels to Studs Terkelaposs quotWorkingquot in that it portrays a wide cross section of the Chinese people but with a harrowing twist how they survived the disastrous Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution of 19661976 Families were destroyed an entire generation of artists and intellectuals was lost These oral histories expertly conducted and arranged by noted writer and cultural critic Feng Jicai are essential in preserving the memory of those who survived and those who did not survive Chinaaposs most calamitous period in its modern history
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In this book Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes explore the historical roots of Americans understanding of madness today Drawing on a rich array of sources the authors interweave the perceptions of medical practitioners the mentally ill and their families and journalists poets novelists and artists As they trace successive ways of explaining madness and treating those judged insane Gamwell and Tomes vividly depict the political and cultural dimensions of American attitudes toward mental illnessGamwell and Tomes observe telling differences in the ways in which patients of different genders races and classes have been diagnosed and treated The authors demonstrate how definitions of madness figured in national debates over abolitionism womens rights and alternative medicine Madness in America also considers how the boundaries between sanity and insanity have been repeatedly redrawn in such areas as sexual behavior and criminality
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