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Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions
provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century.
Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions,
it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers
how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a
'humanitarian' temperament, which drove the earliest movements for
psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a 'culture
of sensibility', which encouraged tears at the sight of tender
suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their
humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to
contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and
confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This
intervention required careful emotional management, which is
documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a
wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides
invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.
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