Between sanity and madness : mental illness from Homer to neuroscience / Allan Horwitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horwitz, Allan V., author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Psychology, Pathological.

Neurosciences.

Mental Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Disorders.

Physical Description:

xi, 367 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Homer to Neuroscience traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions about the nature of mental illness and its boundaries with sanity. What distinguishes mental illnesses from other sorts of devalued conditions and from normality? Should medical, religious, psychological, legal, or no authority at all respond to the mentally ill? Why do some people become mad? What treatments might help them recover? Despite general agreement across societies regarding definitions about the pole of madness, huge disparities exist on where dividing lines should be placed between it and sanity and even if there is any clear demarcation at all. Various groups have provided answers to these puzzles that are both widely divergent and surprisingly similar to current understandings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Puzzles of Mental illness p. 1

2 Before Psychiatry p. 25

3 A Biological Century p. 63

4 Freud's Transformation of Normality p. 97

5 Mental Illness Becomes Ubiquitous p. 125

6 The Decline and Fall of Dynamic Psychiatry p. 159

7 Diagnostic Psychiatry p. 189

8 Biology Re-Emerges p. 221

9 The Successes and Failures of the DSM Revolution p. 257

10 The Past and Future of Mental Illness p. 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Horwitz, Allan, Between sanity and madness

ISBN:

9780190907860

019090786X

OCLC:

1120786257

Publisher Number:

99984136363