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Madness and Morals - Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Madness and Morals - Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1975, Madness and Morals presents the major
preoccupations of nineteenth century society concerning insanity,
its problems, and implications. In the introduction to the
collection, Vieda Skultans traces developments and changes in the
ideas about the insane and their treatment during the nineteenth
century. She shows that two contrasting themes dominated writing on
the subject: the relative weight to be attributed to physical and
moral causes of insanity; and the emphasis on hereditary endowment
or the 'tyranny of organization'. The eighty years covered by this
book produced a wide and varied literature on insanity, and the
psychiatric texts reproduced, by English writers in the field are
grouped under three sections: Outlines of Insanity; Psychiatric
Romanticism; and Psychiatric Darwinism. These are written by
physicians, administrators of the asylums and hospitals, editors of
specialist publications, and others with wide experience in the
field. These writings have a special relevance to the social
history of the nineteenth century, for they demonstrate how
psychiatric thinking reflects the contemporary moral outlook,
forming a part of the total social fabric of society. This book
will be useful for scholars and researchers of mental health,
psychology, and psychiatry.
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