Administrations of Lunacy : Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum / Mab Segrest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segrest, Mab.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychoanalysis and racism.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : New Press, The, 2020.

Summary:

"A look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Georgia on My Mind

Introduction: Administrations of Lunacy

Part I: The Asylum's Antebellum Origins

1. "Demonic and Legionized, They Entered": Samuel Henderson, Supt. Cooper, and the American Journal of Insanity

2. Asylum Psychiatry and Slavery: Fellow Travelers

3. "Stark Mad After Negroes!": The Asylum's Georgia Backstory

Part II: The Settler-Colonial Mind

4. "Confused Farragoes" and "Mesmerized" Alcoholics: Nancy Malone, John Wade, Cherokee Removal, and Slavery

5. "Beat Her with a Wagon Whip": Frances Edwards, Mary Cobb Howell, and White Wives' Miseries

Part III: Civil War, Reconstruction, and "Our Disturbed Country"

6. "The Great Interests of Our Disturbed Country": Civil War and the Georgia Asylum

7. "Separate, Unequal, and Compulsory": Freedpeople Enter the Georgia Asylum

8. "No History Furnished": Ku-Kluxing, Lynching, and Psychiatry's Inter-Psychic Tomb

9. "A Witless Woman's Story": Sue Pagan, Jane Stafford, and Belle Mitchell-Solidarity and a Certain Freedom in Atlanta

Part IV: New Science, Old Ideas

10. Georgia's Segregated Psychiatric Fiefdom

11. Dr. Koch and Supt. Powell: Bacillus or Emancipation-" The Problem"?

12. Turn-of- the- Century Dreams: The Fire This Time, the Asylum Farm, and Supt. Powell's "Operation of a Certain Class"

13. Plantation-Asylum-Prison

Part V: Jim Crowed Psychiatric Modernity

14. "It Must Be the Boss at the Other End": Psychiatry's Black Atlantic

15. Abraham Lincoln Jones, Dr. Goldberger, and the Asylum's Epidemic Violence

16. Dora and the Kindergarten Teacher: (Dis)Abilities and Eugenics

17. "Exalted on the Ward": Mary Roberts and the Asylum's Epistemic Violence

Epilogue: Psychiatry's Afterlives of Slavery, Our Ecologies of Sanity

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781620972984

1620972980

OCLC:

1151271598