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Madness in Civilization

A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

Andrew Scull

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Psychologie

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A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreason

The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason. Madness in Civilization traces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat it.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Madness in Civilization takes readers from antiquity to today, painting a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. From the Bible to Sigmund Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humors to modern pharmacology, the book explores the manifestations and meanings of madness, its challenges and consequences, and our varied responses to it. It also looks at how insanity has haunted the imaginations of artists and writers and describes the profound influence it has had on the arts, from drama, opera, and the novel to drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Written by one of the world's preeminent historians of psychiatry, Madness in Civilization is a panoramic history of the human encounter with unreason.

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Mental disorder, Wilfred Owen, Medical diagnosis, Syphilis, Dementia, Symptom, Efficacy, Psychoanalysis, Poetry, Convulsion, Philosopher, Christianity, Thought, Sigmund Freud, Counter-Reformation, The Various, Avicenna, Pathology, Psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, Puritans, Sensibility, Jews, Criticism, Neurology, Bipolar disorder, Hypnosis, Moral treatment, Psychopathology, Andrew Scull, The Physician, Eugen Bleuler, Lesion, Writing, Demonic possession, Psychoactive drug, Superiority (short story), Suffering, Paralysis, Vomiting, Emil Kraepelin, Delusion, Physician, Quackery, Satire, Pharmaceutical drug, Psychiatric hospital, Psychotherapy, Literature, Humorism, Suggestion, Schizophrenia, Alienist, Otto Dix, Optimism, Hysteria, Shell shock, Neurosis, Debt, Disease, Embarrassment, Exorcism, Phrenology, The Praise of Folly, Lobotomy, Erectile dysfunction, Lettre de cachet, Epilepsy, Melancholia, Psychiatry