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Madness - Ideas About Insanity (Hardcover)
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Madness - Ideas About Insanity (Hardcover)
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This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities
about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about
this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it
is part of a formal course of study. Using case studies of real
people in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the
subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and
is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and
present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive
themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness and
critiques their would-be robustness in explaining the specific
madness of the person in question, as well as their general
relevance to madness overall. Unlike many of its contemporaries,
the book does not adhere to a perspective, but rather remains
skeptical about the ideas of all who profess to understand madness,
whether these emanate from sociology, psychology, psychotherapy,
anthropology, 'anti' psychiatry, or the biological sciences of
contemporary 'scientific-psychiatry'. This book will inform and
stimulate the thinking of the reader, and challenge those with
preconceived ideas about madness.
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