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Madness in Civilization (Hardback) /anglais Hardcover

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In this cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to modern medicine, Professor Scull argues that we remain far from understanding the roots of madness and that modern psychiatry has much to learn from the responses of past societies. Examining medical, pharmacological, religious and psychological approaches, he explains how madness has been perceived as a frightening challenge to the social fabric, and as a profound influence on the arts.
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  1. Language
    English
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  3. Dimensions
    6.14 x 0.98 x 9.21 inches
  4. ISBN-10
    0500252122
  5. ISBN-13
    978-0500252123
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500252122
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500252123
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.27 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.98 x 9.21 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Mr. P. C. B. Connolly
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2017
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Aileen Paton
4.0 out of 5 stars Another time, another place, another diagnosis?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2015
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Review of Andrew Scull’s “Madness in Civilization”
Another time, another place, another interpretation of what is and what is not madness. Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization shines a light on how successive civilisations have attempted to define and categorise the various forms of madness. At one time, he points out, it was deemed to afflict only the rich who considered themselves superior to the poor because only they were civilised, and madness came with superior intelligence. Madness was – and still is, to some extent – identified with being very close to genius. (The fact that the wealth of the privileged was more attractive to would-be mad-doctors and all manner of quacks seems to have escaped the victims of such parasites).
However, there were exceptions to this assumption. How was one to explain the madness attributed to John Claire, the poet coming from lowly origins? Or the fact that the French Revolution failed to eradicate madness, even though most of the rich aristocrats with such conditions would have been eliminated by the guillotine? Even a brief comparison between the new regime in France and that in the newly independent United States of America demonstrated that freedom, whether coming from the left, or the right wing extreme, failed to liberate the mad.
On closer analysis, it would appear that most people prefer a predictable existence, despite having restrictions placed on their liberty, to the anarchic state of turmoil that revolution entails. (Indeed, though Scull does not mention the fact specifically, the Industrial Revolution is known to have generated similar epidemics of madness). Having to adapt to major change seems to have been the trigger for all of this.
Of course, as well as identifying traumatic events of an environmental nature as triggers for madness, psychologists and psychiatrists (or alienists, as the French chose to call them) have placed the blame on genetic factors, or sought to blame conditions on that ever-available scapegoat, the mother, whether that be because she is thought to be over-protective or too domineering; and naturally our bête noir here is Sigmund Freud, who started off the whole hysterical process in the first place.
Patients were eventually to be systematically released from the asylum of gargantuan institutions such as Colney Hatch Psychiatric Institution into the “sink-or swim” freedom of care in the community, and many nouveau riche ingénues snapped up the luxury apartments constructed on the site, blissfully unaware of its previous function. Big Pharma, no longer interested in quick-fit cures, quickly identified a new market for repeat prescriptions for the chronically ill, through its evidence-biased psychiatry as Scull so aptly puts it, (as opposed to evidence-based psychiatry).
It is really useful to read the author’s discussion of the impact the theme of madness has had on everything from the dramas of Shakespeare to the operas of Mozart, or, indeed on art, painting and sculpture. Scull’s book is richly illustrated with all manner of fascinating images that provide a vivid accompaniment to his historical masterpiece. We gain an insight into Biblical experiences of madness; Western medical models introduced around the world, as well as the resistance of certain cultures to these; and we see how communities, societies and civilisations alike have felt the need to respond to “otherness”.
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poppy F
4.0 out of 5 stars I put it in my travel bag and read it in some bathtubs.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2015
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Lucid and interesting. The references list is a good compendium of resources for people researching these topics.
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MANUEL GLEZ CHAVEZ FUND INV.TRAT.ESQUIZOFRE
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2015
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NO PROLEM WITH THIS BOOK
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