Schizophrenia and Civilization
Author | : Edwin Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edwin Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herbert Goldhamer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Mental illness |
ISBN | : |
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 | : E. Fuller Torrey |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1998-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9780000050779 |
Author | : Michael E. Staub |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226771490 |
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society’s undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis. Madness Is Civilization explores the general consensus that societal ills—from dysfunctional marriage and family dynamics to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexism—were at the root of mental illness. Staub chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements. He shows how the theories of antipsychiatry held unprecedented sway over an enormous range of medical, social, and political debates until a bruising backlash against these theories—part of the reaction to the perceived excesses and self-absorptions of the 1960s—effectively distorted them into caricatures. Throughout, Staub reveals that at stake in these debates of psychiatry and politics was nothing less than how to think about the institution of the family, the nature of the self, and the prospects for, and limits of, social change. The first study to describe how social diagnostic thinking emerged, Madness Is Civilization casts new light on the politics of the postwar era.
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 | : Thomas S. Szasz |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0062104748 |
“The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays. Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
Author | : Angela Woods |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199583951 |
Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. The Sublime object of Psychiatry studies representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, antipsychiatry, and postmodern philosophy.