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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Main Author:	Scull, Andrew
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2015
Edition:	1
Subjects:	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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