Portraits of the Insane - Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

List of contents

Introduction , Illustrations , The canvases unrolled , Géricault, a biographical sketch , Madness in modernity, 1656–1789 , The Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum , A new account of the human: responses to Pinel’s Traité , The Golden Age of alienism , Géricault and the alienists , History painter , Surplus and the limits of interpretation , Some Conclusions

About the author

Robert Snell is an analytic psychotherapist, a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Therapeutic Education at Roehampton University. He has a doctorate in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute, and is the author of 'Theophile Gautier: A Romantic Critic of the Visual Arts', co-author with Del Loewenthal of 'Postmodernism for Psychotherapists: A Critical Reader'), and author of 'Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts. Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude'.

Summary

The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Snell, Snell Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367103255
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10325-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Culture and Psychoanalysis