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Author:   Petteri Pietikäinen (University of Oulu, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780415713160

ISBN 10:   0415713161
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   08 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures 1. Introduction to Madness and Its History Part I: Madness from Antiquity to the Age of the Enlightenment 2. Madness in Ancient and Medieval Times 3. Madness, Folly and Religion in Early Modern Europe 4. From the Devil’s Temptation to Wrong Thinking: Madness in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Part II: The Great Transformation: Medicalization of Madness in the Long Nineteenth Century 5. The Age of the Asylum 6. The Medical Management of Madness 7. Living and Dying in Asylumland 8. Naming the Mad Mind Part III: Naming and Managing Madness in the Golden Age of Asylums 9. Mental Maladies in the Twentieth Century 10. Mental Treatment from Magnetism to Psychoanalysis 11. War and Madness 12. Shocks and Surgeries: Somatic Treatments of the Twentieth Century Part IV: Madness in the Cold War Era and Beyond 13. Mind Control, Political Psychiatry and the Human Rights 14. The Psychopharmacological Revolution 15. Madness between Sanity and Normalcy Epilogue Index

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The author provides a sweeping yet poignantly detailed survey of the history of madness. Written in lively and clearly accessible prose and punctuated by colourful yet meaningful examples drawn from primary sources, Madness: A History offers an enticing introduction to students at all levels and to general readers. Part social history, part cultural history, and part intellectual history, Madness: A History conjures a richly rendered past that brings to the fore the lived experiences of the mad among us, while also engaging with the ways in which the most prominent philosophers and medical men defined and treated madness over the centuries. The author skilfully incorporates important historiographic debates and key concepts in ways that will interest experts, while not alienating less experienced readers. Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA Professor Pietkainen has given us a comprehensive and highly analytic history of how cultures have understood madness. He questions the medical model of madness and shows how interpretations of mental illness have changed throughout history and across cultures. This book will greatly please anyone who teaches the history of psychiatry, but the book also will be fascinating for anyone interested in understanding human behavior. Lisa Raskin, Amherst College, USA

Author Information

Petteri Pietikäinen is a Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu in Finland. His publications include C.G. Jung and the Psychology of Symbolic Forms (1999), Alchemists of Human Nature (2007), and Neurosis and Modernity: The Age of Nervousness in Sweden (2007).

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