Madness : ideas about insanity / Peter Morrall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrall, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Case studies.

Mental illness.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study. Using real case studies in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness and critiques their would-be robustness in explaining the specific madness of the person in question, as well as their general relevance to madness overall. Unlike many of its contemporaries, the book does not adhere to a perspective, but rather remains skeptical about the ideas of all who profess to understand madness, whether these emanate from sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, anthropology, 'anti' psychiatry, or the biological sciences of contemporary 'scientific-psychiatry'. This book will inform and stimulate the thinking of the reader, and challenge those with preconceived ideas about madness. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Madness manufactured

2. Incarceration and control

3. Sane insanity

4. Insane society

5. Science and psychiatry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-217) and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315695839

9781317444107

OCLC:

981463777

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.