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1 online resource (448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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Chapter One: CONFRONTING MADNESS -- Chapter Two: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Madness and the Israelites -- The Hellenic World -- Greek and Roman Physick -- Greece and Rome and Imperial China: Worlds Compared -- East and West -- Chapter Three: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN -- Successor States -- Islam and Madness -- Early Hospitals -- Demonic Possession and Spiritual Healing -- Christian Europe -- Saints and Miracles -- Literature and Madness -- Medicine and Madness -- Chapter Four: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE -- Fairies, Ghosts, Goblins and Witches -- Melancholie Madnesse -- Drawing Boundaries -- Dramatic Possibilities -- Madness in Its Infinite Variety -- Fictions and Fables -- Madness and Art -- Fools and Folly -- Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Puzzles and Complexities -- Chapter Five: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS -- Changing Responses to Madness -- Representations of Madness -- Shutting People Up -- Novel Predicaments -- Disciplining the Unruly -- Kindness and Humanity? -- Chapter Six: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS -- Owning a Disease -- Disordered Nerves -- Enthusiasm and Spiritual Agony -- Exorcizing Demons -- Invisible Forces -- Chapter Seven: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT -- Nervous or Mad? -- The Rise of the Empire of Asylumdom -- Imperial Psychiatry -- Moral Treatment -- From Madness to Mental Illness -- Lumps and Bumps, or Mental Cures for Bodily Afflictions -- Madness and the Morgue -- Responsible Guardians -- Chapter Eight: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR -- The Disorders of Civilized Existence -- Waning Confidence -- Shutting Up the Mad: Pictorial and Literary Protests -- Gothic Tales -- Degenerates -- Artistic Licence -- Dealing with the Depraved -- The Roots of Madness -- Chapter Nine: THE DEMI-FOUS -- Avoiding the Asylum -- The Borderlands of Insanity -- Hysteria on the Stage -- Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis -- Repression -- Chapter Ten: DESPERATE REMEDIES -- The Trials of Total War -- Shell Shock -- Fever -- A Crisis of Legitimacy -- The Germ of Madness -- Shock Therapy -- Targeting Brains -- Backlash -- Chapter Eleven: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE -- The Search for Meaning -- The Psychoanalytic Movement -- Freud and the Americans -- Into Exile -- Total War and Its Consequences -- Psychoanalysis, American Style -- Pathological Mommies -- Freudian Hegemony -- Madness and the Movies -- Chapter Twelve: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION? -- The End of Asylumdom -- A Technological Fix? -- Doomed Institutions -- The Fate of Those with Chronic Mental Illness -- The Drugs Revolution -- The Re-Constitution of Psychiatry -- Biology Bites Back -- Epilogue. |
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Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. CaOTR |
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In English. |
| ISBN |
9781400865710 (electronic bk.) |
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1400865719 (electronic bk.) |
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9780500772560 (electronic bk.) |
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0500772568 (electronic bk.) |
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9780500292549 |
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050029254X |
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0691166153 |
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9780691166155 |
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9780691166155 |
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9780500252123 (hbk.) (e-book) |
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10.1515/9781400865710 doi |
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12339673 |
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