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Madness - A History (Paperback)
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Madness - A History (Paperback)
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Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness
from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced
picture of mental illness and its varieties in western
civilization. The book opens by considering perceptions and
experiences of madness starting in Biblical times, Ancient history
and Hippocratic medicine to the Age of Enlightenment, before moving
on to developments from the late 18th century to the late 20th
century and the Cold War era. Petteri Pietikainen looks at issues
such as 18th century asylums, the rise of psychiatry, the history
of diagnoses, the experiences of mental health patients, the
emergence of neuroses, the impact of eugenics, the development of
different treatments, and the late 20th century emergence of
anti-psychiatry and the modern malaise of the worried well. The
book examines the history of madness at the different levels of
micro-, meso- and macro: the social and cultural forces shaping the
medical and lay perspectives on madness, the invention and
development of diagnoses as well as the theories and treatment
methods by physicians, and the patient experiences inside and
outside of the mental institution. Drawing extensively from primary
records written by psychiatrists and accounts by mental health
patients themselves, it also gives readers a thorough grounding in
the secondary literature addressing the history of madness. An
essential read for all students of the history of mental illness,
medicine and society more broadly.
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