Author: Edwin Fuller TorreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Schizophrenia and Civilization
Author: Edwin Fuller TorreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Psychosis and Civilization
Author: Herbert GoldhamerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Psychosis and Civilization
Author: Herbert GoldhamerPsychosis and Civilization
Author: Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel FoucaultPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Schizophrenia and Civilization
Author: E. Fuller TorreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780000050779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Madness Is Civilization
Author: Michael E. StaubPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226771490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Madness in Civilization
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
The Myth of Mental Illness
Author: Thomas S. SzaszPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062104748
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
“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.
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry
Author: Angela WoodsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199583951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
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.