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The Routledge history of madness and mental health / edited by Greg Eghigian.

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"This book explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America as well as Europe and North America, drawing together the latest scholarship and source material...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Eghigian, Greg, 1961- (Editor)
Other title:History of madness and mental health.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Routledge histories.
Subjects:
Mental illness > History.
Mental health > History.
Psychiatry > History.
Mental health services.
Psychoanalytic counseling.
Psychology, Pathological.
Mental illness > Case studies.
Mental health.
Mental illness.
Psychiatry.
History.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the history of madness and mental health / Greg Eghigian
  • Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds
  • Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period / Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert
  • Ancient Greek and Roman traditions / Chiara Thumiger
  • Madness in the Middle Ages / Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden
  • Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools
  • Healers and healing in the early modern health care market / Elizabeth Mellyn
  • The asylum, hospital, and clinic / Andrew Scull
  • The epistemology and classification of madness since the 18th century / German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková
  • Part III. Beyond medicine
  • Psychiatry and religion / Rhodri Hayward
  • Literature and the arts / Ilya Vinitsky
  • Psychiatry and its visual culture, ca. 1800-1960 / Andreas Killen
  • Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings
  • Madness and psychiatry in Latin America's long nineteenth century / Manuella Meyer
  • Histories of madness in South Asia / Waltraud Ernst
  • Mad Africa / Sally Swartz
  • Voices of madness in Japan : narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature / Akihito Suzuki
  • Part V. Perspectives and experiences
  • The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill : material culture and madness / Benoît Majerus
  • From the perspectives of mad people / Geoffrey Reaume
  • Dementia : confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness / Jesse Ballenger
  • Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments
  • Passions and moods / Laura Hirshbein
  • Psychosis / Richard Noll
  • Somatic therapies / Jonathan Sadowsky
  • Psychotherapy in society : historical reflections / Sonu Shamdasani
  • The antidepressant era revisited : towards differentiation and patient-
  • Empowerment in diagnosis and treatment / Toine Pieters.

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