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Madness: A brief history

By Roy Porter

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2003
ISBN
9780192802675, 0192802674
Open Library ID
OL7383272M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9744049 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
251\251
Topic
Psychology
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Психологические дисциплины;История психологии

Description

This fascinating story reveals radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, witches to creative geniuses, and psychoanalysis to Prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of writers, artists, those treating patients, and the mad themselves.

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