From Madness to Mental Health

Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
Herausgeber: Eghigian, Greg

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Produktbeschreibung

In From Madness to Mental Health, Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, which also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein. This work considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546667
• ISBN-10: 0813546664
• Artikelnr.: 26526172

Autorenporträt

Greg Eghigian is the director of the science, technology, and society program and associate professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Self as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I The Pneumatic Age
A. The Ancient World
The Bible, 1 Samuel (ca. 960 B.C.E.)
Euripides (484-407/6 B.C.E.), The Bacchae (ca. 404 B.C.E.)
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.E.), Writings on Hysteria (ca. fourth century
B.C.E.)
The Bible, Mark 5 (ca. 65-75 C.E.)
Soranus (ca. second century C.E.), "Madness or Insanity (Greek Mania)"
B. Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sarabiyun Ibn Ibrahim, "Three Cases of Melancholia by Rufus of Ephesus"
(ca. 873)
Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (ca. 980-1037), "Lovesickness" (First Latin
translation, twelfth century)
Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416), Revelations of Divine Love (ca. 1390s)
John Brydall (ca. 1635-ca. after 1705), The Law Relating to Natural Fools,
Mad-Folks,and Lunatick Persons (1700)
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738), "Aphorisms" (1765)
William Cullen (1710-1790), Lectures on the Materia Medica (1773)
C. Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Reform
Part II The Age of Optimism
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), A Treatise on Insanity (1801)
Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843), Textbook on Disturbances of
Mental Life (1818)
Jean Etienne Esquirol (1772-1840), "Monomania" (1838)
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts
(1843)
The M'Naughten Rules (1843)
B. The Asylum
The Opal: A Monthly Periodical of the State Lunatic Asylum, Devoted to
Usefulness, Edited by the Patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum
(1850-1860)
Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, Report of the Limerick District Lunatic
Asylum for the Year Ending December 31st, 1866 (1867)
Great Britain, Office of Superintendent Government, Annual Report of the
Insane Asylums in Bengal for the Year 1867 (1868)
Elizabeth P. W. Packard (1816-1897), The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or Insane
Asylums Unveiled (1868)
C. Brain Science, Nerves, and Clinical Psychiatry
Nelson Sizer (1812-1897), Forty Years in Phrenology; Embracing
Recollections of History, Anecdote, and Experience (1891)
George Miller Beard (1839-1883), Cases of Hysteria, Neurasthenia, Spinal
Irritation, or Allied Affections (1874)
Auguste Tamburini (1848-1919), "A Theory of Hallucinations" (1881)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), Psychopathia Sexualis (1892)
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), "A Tuesday Lesson: Hysteroepilepsy" (1888)
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), "About the Surveillance Ward at the Heidelberg
Clinic for Lunatics" (1895)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), "The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis"
(1910)
Vincent, "Confessions of an Agoraphobic Victim (1919)
Part III The Militant Age
A. War and Neurosis
Fritz Kaufmann (1875-1941), "The Systematic Cure of Complicated Psychogenic
Motor Disorders Among Soldiers in One Session" (1916)
W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922), War Neurosis and Military Training (1918)
B. The New Focus on the Body
Anonymous, "Autopsychology of the Manic-Depressive" (1910)
Herman Lundborg (1868-1943), "The Danger of Degeneracy" (1922)
The Decision in Buck v. Bell (1927)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940), "The Treatment of Dementia Paralytica by
Malaria Inoculation" (1927)
Hermann Simon (1867-1947), Active Therapy in the Lunatic Facility (1929)
Anonymous, "Insulin and I" (1940)
Walter Freeman (1895-1972) and James W. Watts (1904-1994), "Psychosurgery
During 1936-1946" (1947)
C. Psychiatric Eugenics in Germany
Fritz Lenz (1887-1976), Human Selection and Race Hygiene (1921)
Germany, "The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Ill Offspring" (14
July 1933)
Documents on the "T-4" and "14f13" Programs (1939-1945)
D. Mental Illness, Psychiatry, and Communism
Thea H. (b. 1923), An Experience of Psychosis in Post-World War II Germany
(1949)
Records in the Case of Pyotr Grigorenko (1969-1970)
World Psychiatric Association, "Declaration of Hawaii" (1977)
E. Anti-Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), "The North African Syndrome" (1952)
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), "The Myth of Mental Illness" (1960)
Franco Basaglia (1924-1980), "The Problem of the Incident" (1968)
Great Britain Department of Health and Social Security, Better Services for
the Mentally Ill (1975)
Part IV The Psychoboom
Alcoholics Anonymous (founded 1935), "The Twelve Steps" and "The Twelve
Traditions"
Carl Rogers (1902-1987), "The Attitude and Orientation of the Counselor in
Client Centered Therapy" (1949)
Aaron T. Beck (b. 1921), "Cognitive Therapy: Nature and Relation to
Behavior Therapy" (1970)
Edna I. Rawlings and Dianne K. Carter, "The Intractable Female Patient"
(1977)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III, "Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder" (1980)
Psychiatrists Debate Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge (1990)
Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English (Fourth
Edition) by Gail A. Hornstein