In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's
problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this
intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time
when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social
conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were
gulags for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept
with no medical basis."Madness Is Civilization" explores the
general consensus that societal ills--from dysfunctional marriage
and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism--were at
the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence
of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of
radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements. He shows how
the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an
enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a
bruising backlash against these theories--part of the reaction to
the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the
1960s--effectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout,
Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and
politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution
of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and
limits of, social change.
The first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking
emerged, "Madness Is Civilization "casts new light on the politics
of the postwar era.
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