Madness - An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment

Informationen zum Autor Mary de Young, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Klappentext "Madness" is! of course! personally experienced! but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context! it is also socially constructed! culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material! this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness! including why some behaviors! thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people and not others; by whom the label is applied! and with what consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      List of Tables      viiiPreface      1. What Is Madness?      2. The Experience of Madness      3. Distracted in the Colonies      4. Asylums      5. Asylum Patients      6. Asylum Therapeutics      Conclusion      Bibliography      Index

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

List of Tables      viii

Preface     

1. What Is Madness?     

2. The Experience of Madness     

3. Distracted in the Colonies     

4. Asylums     

5. Asylum Patients     

6. Asylum Therapeutics     

Conclusion     

Bibliography     

Index     

Product details

• Authors: Mary De Young, Mary de Young
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2010
• EAN: 9780786433988
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-3398-8
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works