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

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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Hlavní autor:	Scull, Andrew
Médium:	E-kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2015
Vydání:	1
Témata:	Alienist Andrew Scull Avicenna Bipolar disorder Christianity Convulsion Counter-Reformation Criticism Debt Delusion Dementia Demonic possession Disease Disease & Health Issues Efficacy Embarrassment Emil Kraepelin Epilepsy Erectile dysfunction Eugen Bleuler Exorcism History HISTORY / General Humorism Hypnosis Hysteria Jews Lesion Lettre de cachet Literature Lobotomy Medical diagnosis Melancholia Mental disorder Mental Health Moral treatment Neurology Neurosis Optimism Otto Dix Paralysis Pathology Pharmaceutical drug Philosopher Phrenology Physician Poetry Psychiatric hospital Psychiatrist Psychiatry Psychoactive drug Psychoanalysis PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY / History PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health Psychopathology Psychotherapy Puritans Quackery R. D. Laing Satire Schizophrenia Sensibility Shell shock Sigmund Freud SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues Sociology Suffering Suggestion Superiority (short story) Symptom Syphilis The Physician The Praise of Folly The Various Thought Vomiting Wilfred Owen Writing Psychiatric hospital Demonic possession Disease Melancholia Moral treatment Psychotherapy Delusion Bipolar disorder The Physician Optimism Counter-Reformation Suggestion The Praise of Folly Puritans Debt Psychoanalysis Poetry Psychopathology Hysteria Literature Quackery Emil Kraepelin The Various Philosopher Lobotomy Shell shock Thought Pathology Neurology Andrew Scull Sigmund Freud Convulsion Suffering Lesion Alienist Dementia Humorism Pharmaceutical drug Epilepsy Schizophrenia Sensibility Medical diagnosis Psychiatrist Exorcism Lettre de cachet Neurosis Avicenna Jews Vomiting Syphilis Wilfred Owen Paralysis R. D. Laing Symptom Phrenology Eugen Bleuler Physician Psychoactive drug Efficacy Erectile dysfunction Criticism Christianity Embarrassment Mental disorder Writing Satire Hypnosis Superiority (short story) Psychiatry Otto Dix
ISBN:	0691173443, 1400865719, 9781400865710, 9780691173443, 0691166153, 9780691166155
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Madness in civilization: a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: CONFRONTING MADNESS -- CHAPTER TWO: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- CHAPTER THREE: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN -- CHAPTER FOUR: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE -- CHAPTER FIVE: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS -- CHAPTER SIX: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT -- CHAPTER EIGHT: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR -- CHAPTER NINE: THE DEMI-FOUS -- CHAPTER TEN: DESPERATE REMEDIES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE -- CHAPTER TWELVE: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX.
Front Matter Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One: CONFRONTING MADNESS Chapter Two: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Chapter Three: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN Chapter Four: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE Chapter Five: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS Chapter Six: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS Chapter Seven: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT Chapter Eight: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR Chapter Nine: THE DEMI-FOUS Chapter Ten: DESPERATE REMEDIES Chapter Eleven: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE Chapter Twelve: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION? NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX
Title, Copyright, Dedication Contents Acknowledgments 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 12: A Psychiatric Revolution? 10: Desperate Remedies 11: A Meaningful Interlude Cover Notes Bibliography Sources of Illustrations Index
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of Illustrations -- Index
Chapter Five. MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS
Chapter Nine. THE DEMI-FOUS
SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Chapter Eight. DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR
Chapter Four. MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE
Chapter One. CONFRONTING MADNESS
Chapter Six. NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS
Chapter Ten. DESPERATE REMEDIES
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CONTENTS
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Chapter Three. THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN
Chapter Seven. THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acknowledgments
Chapter Twelve. A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION?
Praise for Madness in Civilization
Chapter Eleven. A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE
Frontmatter --
Chapter Two. MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
INDEX