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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eghigian, Greg, 1961- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge histories

The Routledge histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--History.

Mental illness.

History.

Mental health--History.

Mental health.

Psychiatry--History.

Psychiatry.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

History of madness and mental health

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

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 in this growing field and allowing for fresh comparisons to be made across time and space. Thematically organised and written by leading academics, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, the perpetual difficulty of creating a classification system for madness and mental health, madness within life histories, the increased globalisation of knowledge and treatment practices, and the persistence of spiritual and supernatural conceptualisations of experiences associated with madness. This volume also examines the challenges involved in analysing primary sources in this area and how key themes such as class, gender, and race have influenced the treatment and diagnosis of madness throughout history. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging, and providing a fascinating overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of the history of madness, mental health, psychiatry, and medicine.--Publisher description.

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 Markovï¿1/2a

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 / Benoï¿1/2it 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Routledge history of madness and mental health.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781138781603

1138781606

OCLC:

962326031

Publisher Number:

99972747138