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Title Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14
Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
Contents The mad objects of fin-de-siècle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn
Summary At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mental illness -- History
Medicine in literature.
Mental Disorders -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Medicine in Literature
Mental Disorders -- epidemiology
Mental Health Services -- history
Mentally Ill Persons -- history
HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.
Medicine in literature
Mental illness
SUBJECT Austria-Hungary
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Blackshaw, Gemma
Wieber, Sabine
ISBN 0857454587
9780857454584
0857454595
9780857454591
9781280876110
1280876115