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Madness [electronic resource] : a brief history / Roy Porter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 241 p.) : illISBN:
  • 142375736X (electronic bk.)
  • 9781423757368 (electronic bk.)
  • 1280444517
  • 9781280444517
  • 9780191622281
  • 0191622281
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Madness.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/009 22
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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?
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index.

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?

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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.

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