Archeology of Madness
Author | : Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian |
Publisher | : Gomidas Institute |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9781903656105 |
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Author | : Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian |
Publisher | : Gomidas Institute |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9781903656105 |
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307833100 |
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author | : Andrew Scull |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691166153 |
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 775 |
Release | : 2013-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113447380X |
This translation of The History of Madness in the Classical Age is the first English edition of the original, complete French text and includes important material that until now was unavailable.
Author | : Dale Peterson |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1982-03-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0822974258 |
A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, "a London citizen" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.
Author | : Nic Compton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472941101 |
Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.
Author | : Petteri Pietikäinen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317484452 |
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 Pietikäinen 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.
Author | : Arthur Still |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134919697 |
Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. This title assesses the reactions to Madness and Civilization.
Author | : Mary de Young |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786457465 |
"Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, it is also socially constructed, culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material, this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people and not others; by whom the label is applied, and with what consequences.
Author | : Greg Eghigian |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351784390 |
This volume explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Covering Africa, Asia and South America as well as Europe and North America, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, madness within life histories and the increased globalization of knowledge and treatment practices. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging and providing a fascinating overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of the history of madness, mental health, psychiatry and medicine.