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La Castaneda Insane Asylum - Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (Paperback)
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La Castaneda Insane Asylum - Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (Paperback)
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La CastaNeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings
of La CastaNeda General Insane Asylum - a public mental health
institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the
outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the
asylum's walls to the radical transformations brought about as
Mexico entered the Revolution's armed phase and then endured under
succeeding modernizing regimes. Author Cristina Rivera Garza brings
the history of La CastaNeda asylum to life as inmates, doctors,
relatives, and others engage in dialogues on insanity. They discuss
faith, sex, poverty, loss, resentment, envy, love, and politics.
Doctors translated what they heard into the emerging language of
psychiatry, while inmates conveyed their personal experiences and
private histories through expressions of mental suffering. The
language of pain - physical and spiritual, mild to excruciating -
allowed patients to detail the sources and consequences of their
misfortune. Available now for the first time in English, this
edition contains updated sources and features a note by the
translator, Laura Kanost.
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