Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

List of contents

Introduction
1. Conversion Hysteria
2. Tarantism
3. Demonic Possession
4. Dual and Multiple Personality
5. Mad Travellers
6. Sluggish Schizophrenia
7. Shamanism and Arctic hysteria
8. Amok
9. Hikikomori
10. The Misunderstanding of Homosexuality As a Form of Pathology
Some brief final considerations
Bibliographic references

About the author

Marco Innamorati is full professor of History and Philosophy of Scientific Concepts and Dynamic and Developmental Psychology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. He already published for Routledge A Critical History of Psychotherapy, Volume 1 and 2 (with Renato Foschi).

Product details

• Authors: Marco Innamorati, Marco (Universita Tor Vergata Innamorati
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032771014
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277101-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, General & world history, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, General and world history