Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine / Andrew Scull.
"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 m...
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Princeton :
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Table of Contents:
- Confronting madness
- Madness in the ancient world
- The darkness and the dawn
- Melancholie and madnesse
- Madhouses and mad-doctors
- Nerves and nervousness
- The great confinement
- Degeneration and despair
- The demi-fous
- Desperate remedies
- A meaningful interlude
- A psychiatric revolution?