Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness : the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849 / Ann Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Ann, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eberbach (Asylum)--History--19th century.

Psychiatry--Germany--History--19th century.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatric hospitals--Germany--Sociological aspects.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Mental illness--Germany--History--19th century.

Mental illness.

Psychotherapist and patient--Germany--History--19th century.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Local Subjects:

Eberbach (Asylum)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240p. ) ill., map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on the case records of several hundred asylum patients, this book reconstructs the encounters of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy during a transitional period in the history of Germany and psychiatry.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1 The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum

State-building and the Origins of the Asylum

Asylum Administration

Anthropological Psychiatry and Moral Treatment

Economic Crisis and the Social World of the Patients

Part I: RELIGION

2 Religious Madness in the Vormärz: Culture, Politics, and the Professionalization of Psychiatry

Bourgeois Culture

The Politics of Religion

The Professionalization of Psychiatry

3 Religious Madness and the Formation of Patients

Mental Trauma and the Supernatural

The Medicalization of Religious Madness

State and Asylum

Reshaping the Self

Instilling Conscience

Part II: SEXUALITY AND GENDER

4 Medical Representations of Sexual Madness: Nymphomania and Masturbatory Insanity

Nymphomania

Male Masturbation

Gendered Models of Sexual Pathology

Public versus Private Symptoms

Aggression versus Passivity

The Gendering of Brunonianism

Repression and the Production of Desire

The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity

5 Doctors and Patients: The Practice(s) of Nymphomania

Social Class and Illness

Power and Resistance: The Doctor-Patient Relationship

The Formation of "Sexuality"

6 Women, Sex, and Rural Life

Rural Sex Norms and "Man-Craziness"

Medicine and Community in the Making of a Nymphomaniac

Man-Craziness: Personal and Social Narratives of Sex

Marital Strife and the Language of Accusation

Single Women and the Language of Desire

Part III: DELINQUENCY AND CRIMINALITY

7 Masturbatory Insanity and Delinquency

The Case of Johann A.

Institutions and Lower-Class Masturbators

Families, Experts, and Middle-Class Masturbators

8 Jews and the Criminalization of Madness

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Notes:

Originally published: 1999.

Includes index.

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Bibliography.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771622-9

0-19-756134-9

0-19-028630-X

0-19-535218-1

1-280-47177-8

9786610471775

1-60256-436-1

OCLC:

80241969