Title Madness : a brief history / Roy Porter

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Gods and demons -- 3. Madness rationalized -- 4. Fools and folly -- 5. Locking up the mad -- 6. The rise of psychiatry -- 7. The mad -- 8. The century of psychoanalysis? -- 9. Conclusion : modern times, ancient problems? Summary This story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by "madness", covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, and psychoanalysis to Prozac. The origins of debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Mental illness -- History Mentally ill -- Care -- History Psychiatry -- History Mental Disorders -- history Psychiatry -- history MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General. PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. MEDICAL -- Mental Health. Mental illness Mentally ill -- Care Psychiatry Wahnsinn Kultur Psychische Störung Psychische stoornissen. Mental illness -- History. Mentally ill -- Care -- History. Psychiatry -- History. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001052329 ISBN 142375736X 9781423757368 1280444517 9781280444517 9780191622281 0191622281 9780191587764 0191587761 9786610444519 661044451X

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