This book critiques the connection between Western society and
madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the
cause, construction, and consequence of madness. Looking beyond the
affected individual to their social, political, economic,
ecological, and cultural context, this book examines whether
society itself, and its institutions, divisions, practices, and
values, is mad. That society's insanity is relevant to the sanity
and insanity of its citizens has been argued by Fromm in The Sane
Society, but also by a host of sociologists, social thinkers,
epidemiologists and biologists. This book builds on classic texts
such as Foucault's History of Madness, Scull's Marxist-oriented
works and more recent publications which have arisen from a range
of socio-political and patient-orientated movements. Chapters in
this book draw on biology, psychology, sociological and
anthropological thinking that argues that where madness is
concerned, society matters. Providing an extended case study of how
the sociological imagination should operate in a contemporary
setting, this book draws on genetics, neuroscience, cognitive
science, radical psychology, and evolutionary
psychology/psychiatry. It is an important read for students and
scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, criminology,
health, and mental health.
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