A Mad People S History Of Madness

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780822974253

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A Mad People’s History of Madness by Dale Peterson Pdf

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 : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783785410

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A Mad People's History of Madness by Dale Peterson Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415277019

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History of Madness by Michel Foucault Pdf

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 : Greg Eghigian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351784399

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The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health by Greg Eghigian Pdf

Mad people's historical anthologies and republished writings -- Mad people's perspectives in institutional histories -- Mad people's historical biographies -- Mad people's activist histories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness -- Dementia in the distant past -- Framing dementia as a brain disease in modern German psychiatry -- Framing dementia as a problem in the adjustment to aging in mid-century American psychodynamic psychiatry -- Framing dementia as dread disease and major public health crisis in an aging world -- Conclusion: the ongoing entanglement of dementia and aging -- Notes -- PART VI: Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Chapter 17: Passions and moods -- Emotions in history -- Grand narratives and overarching themes -- Specific stories and critical contexts -- Conclusion and areas for further scholarship -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Psychosis -- Madness -- Psychosis is a special thing -- If "psychotic" means "psychosis-like," then what, pray tell, is psychosis like? -- Schizophrenia -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Somatic treatments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections -- Notes -- Chapter 21: The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment -- Psychopharmacology and historiography -- Towards a new chemistry of the mind -- Mother's little helpers -- Appetite for new chemical wonders for the mind -- Towards differentiation and patient empowerment in the era of genomics -- Notes -- Index

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Pdf

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 : Dale Peterson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0822953315

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A Mad People’s History of Madness by Dale Peterson Pdf

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 : Emily Baum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226558240

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The Invention of Madness by Emily Baum Pdf

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” ​ Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.

Author : Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : 9781551305349

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Mad Matters by Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume Pdf

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad, ' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves." Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness." The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.

Author : Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030695590

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Voices in the History of Madness by Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor Pdf

This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses. Today, the development of service-user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. This edited collection of interdisciplinary chapters offers new and innovative perspectives on mental health and illness in the past and covers a breadth of opinions, views, and interpretations from patients, practitioners, policy makers, family members and wider communities. Its chronology runs from the early modern period to the twenty-first century and includes international and transnational analyses from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of sources and methodologies including oral histories, material culture, and the built environment. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691166155

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Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull Pdf

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

Author : Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780887555350

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Managing Madness by Erika Dyck,Alex Deighton Pdf

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum’s expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck’s "Managing Madness" examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.

Author : Irit Shimrat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020399312

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Call Me Crazy by Irit Shimrat Pdf

Brimming with hope, resistance, and passion, Call Me Crazy chronicles the story of the mad movement, a loose coalition of former mental patients and their allies who are working to build a world where locked wards and forced drugging are not acceptable solutions to suffering.

Author : Petteri Pietikäinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317484455

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Madness by Petteri Pietikäinen Pdf

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 : I. IU Vinitskii
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802091406

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Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture by I. IU Vinitskii Pdf

Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness

Author : Mary de Young
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786457465

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Madness by Mary de Young Pdf

"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.