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Madness : a history / Petteri Pietikäinen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Taylor & Francis eBooksDescription: 1 online resource (vi, 346 pages.)ISBN:
  • 9781315708966 (electronic bk.)
  • 1315708965 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.89 23
LOC classification:
  • RC438 .P54 2015
NLM classification:
  • 2015 H-001
  • WM 11.1
Other classification:
  • 44.01
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction to madness and its history -- Part I. Madness from antiquity to the age of the Enlightenment -- Madness in ancient and medieval times -- Madness, folly and religion in early modern Europe -- From the devil's temptation to wrong thinking : madness in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Part III. The great transformation : medicalization of madness in the long nineteenth century -- The age of the asylum -- The medical management of madness -- Living and dying in asylumland -- Naming the mad mind -- Part III. Naming and managing madness in the golden age of asylums -- Mental maladies in the twentieth century -- Mental treatment from magnetism to psychoanalysis -- War and madness -- Shocks and surgeries : somatic treatments of the twentieth century -- Part IV. Madness in the Cold War era and beyond -- Mind control, political psychiatry and the human rights -- The psychopharmacological revolution -- Madness between sanity and normalcy -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to madness and its history -- Part I. Madness from antiquity to the age of the Enlightenment -- Madness in ancient and medieval times -- Madness, folly and religion in early modern Europe -- From the devil's temptation to wrong thinking : madness in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Part III. The great transformation : medicalization of madness in the long nineteenth century -- The age of the asylum -- The medical management of madness -- Living and dying in asylumland -- Naming the mad mind -- Part III. Naming and managing madness in the golden age of asylums -- Mental maladies in the twentieth century -- Mental treatment from magnetism to psychoanalysis -- War and madness -- Shocks and surgeries : somatic treatments of the twentieth century -- Part IV. Madness in the Cold War era and beyond -- Mind control, political psychiatry and the human rights -- The psychopharmacological revolution -- Madness between sanity and normalcy -- Epilogue.

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